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" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "
Thomas Sowell
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" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "
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Left
Vision
School
" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "
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Warning
Forget
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" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "
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Money
Mouth
Where
" The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' "
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You
" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "
Thomas Sowell
Data
Cry
Nothing
" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
Insurance
Lawyers
Win
" 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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Baseball
Run
Game
" 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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Why
Weather
Tomorrow
" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "
Thomas Sowell
State
Welfare
About
" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "
Thomas Sowell
Antithesis
Moral
Monopoly
" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "
Thomas Sowell
Beliefs
Us
Very
" 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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Say
Present
Opinion
" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
Expansion
Slavery
Family
" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "
Thomas Sowell
People
Tax
Taxes
" The real minimum wage is zero. "
Thomas Sowell
Minimum Wage
Real
Zero
" Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. "
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Want
Rise
Immigration
" What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. "
Thomas Sowell
Blame
Culture
Praise
" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "
Thomas Sowell
Always
Government
More
" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
Long
Looking
Country
" 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
Life
Liberal
Logic
" People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. "
Thomas Sowell
More
Liberals
Charity
" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "
Thomas Sowell
Lesson
Enough
Politics
" 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
" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "
Thomas Sowell
America
Why
Live
" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "
Thomas Sowell
Care
Political
People
" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "
Thomas Sowell
History
Over
Past
" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
Brilliant
Brainy
War
" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "
Thomas Sowell
Technology
Class
Students
" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "
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President
Places
Trying
" If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. "
Thomas Sowell
Be Prepared
You
Civilization