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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

Thomas Sowell

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

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