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Thomas Sowell

Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
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 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
We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Concentration Ideas Institution Surprise Survive Work
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
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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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
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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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle

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