The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
THOMAS SOWELLThe media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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 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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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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 first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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 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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