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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
Thomas Sowell
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Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.
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History is the memory of a nation
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
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Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
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Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse off after some bailouts. The real point is to avoid a major contraction of credit that could cause major downturns in output and employment, ruining millions of people, far beyond the financial institutions involved. If it was just a question of the financial institutions themselves, they could be left to sink or swim. But it is not.
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Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is especially important, for these are people who will no longer be around to launch more attacks on American soil. Iraq has become a magnet for enemies of the United States, a place where they can be killed wholesale, thousands of miles away.
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The way the welfare programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.
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Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
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We don‘t have faith that freedom works. We have evidence.
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To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.
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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
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There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.
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Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
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All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell