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Thomas Sowell

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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