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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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