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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
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Economist
Born:
June 30
, 1930
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
Funny
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Extent
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Considerable
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
Politics
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Satisfy
,
Disregard
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell
Leadership
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Charge
,
Should
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.
Thomas Sowell
Politics
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Play
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Always
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
Centuries
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Disintegrated
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.
Thomas Sowell
Stupid
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Making
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Imagine
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.
Thomas Sowell
Color
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Green
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Race
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
Thomas Sowell
Strong
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Suit
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Strong Suit
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell
Income
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Big
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Held
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell
Strong
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Gun
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Laws
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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
Been
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Social
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Over
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
Government
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Want
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Been
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.'
Thomas Sowell
Been
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Some
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Declare
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
Will
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More
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Over
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.
Thomas Sowell
Problem
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Think
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Confuses
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.
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Gun
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Will
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Dent
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
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Forget
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Too
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Correlation
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.
Thomas Sowell
Fate
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Been
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Descendants
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell
More
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Specialty
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Talkers
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell
About
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Welfare State
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Egos
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
Down
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Multiculturalism
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Any
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
Business
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News
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Accordingly
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
Health
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Think
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Hospitals
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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Work
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Survive
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Fact
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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Country
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Big
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Democrats
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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Education
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Too
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