What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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