We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople 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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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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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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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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