Thomas Sowell
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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.” -Thomas Sowell
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“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
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“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.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.” -Thomas Sowell
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“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
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“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.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” -Thomas Sowell
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“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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.” -Thomas Sowell
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“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
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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
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“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
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“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” -Thomas Sowell
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“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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