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" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "
Thomas Sowell
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" The real minimum wage is zero. "
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" 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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" 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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" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "
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" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "
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" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "
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" 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. "
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" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "
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" Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. "
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" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "
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" Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. "
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" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "
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" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "
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" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "
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" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "
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" Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. "
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" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. "
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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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" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "
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" The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' "
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" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "
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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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" 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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