The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
THOMAS SOWELL
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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