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 SOWELLIt doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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