Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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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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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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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