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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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The 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 common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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