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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Thomas Sowell

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 purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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