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" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "
Thomas Sowell
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" Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. "
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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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" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "
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" The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore 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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" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "
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" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "
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" Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? "
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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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" The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. "
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" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "
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Green
Race
" 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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" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "
Thomas Sowell
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Liberal
Logic
" 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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Seem
Been
" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "
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Speak
Mere
" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "
Thomas Sowell
People
Freedom
Government
" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "
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" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
Thomas Sowell
Want
Government
Life
" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "
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Need
" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "
Thomas Sowell
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Only
Soviet
" I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. "
Thomas Sowell
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Imagination
Kind
" 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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Thinking
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Feeling
" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "
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" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "
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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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People
Some
" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "
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" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "
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Own
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" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "
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Education
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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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People
" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "
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Rhetoric
Cost
" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "
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Today
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