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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Thomas Sowell

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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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 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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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