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" 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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" 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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" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "

" You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. "

" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "

" 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? "

" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "

" 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. "

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" 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

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" It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "

" The real minimum wage is zero. "

" 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. "

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

" 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. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "

" If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' "

" The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. "