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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

Thomas Sowell

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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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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 fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
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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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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