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Talkers are usually more arti...

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

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It is hard to imagine a more ...

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 713 quotes

You will never understand bur...

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Stopping illegal immigration ...

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.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Imagine a political system so...

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Immigration laws are the only...

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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President Obama seems complet...

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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Like a baseball game, wars ar...

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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Brainy folks were also presen...

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.

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All the political angst and m...

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

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People who identify themselve...

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.

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Few professors would dare to ...

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 713 quotes

The time is long overdue to s...

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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A shortage is a sign that som...

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

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As for gun control advocates,...

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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Many people, including some c...

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.

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All too often when liberals c...

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

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A moral monopoly is the antit...

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

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Groups that rose from poverty...

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

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All of us should be on guard ...

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 713 quotes

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