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.
THOMAS SOWELLFailure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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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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