Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
THOMAS SOWELLThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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