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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

Thomas Sowell

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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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 has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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