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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.

Thomas Sowell

People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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