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• People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.

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  Believe, Government, People

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• Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

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  People, Justice, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

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  Children, Acting, Adults

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• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

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  Mistake, Decision, Vision

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• Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

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  Europe, People, Slavery

  "Random Thoughts". townhall.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

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  Intelligent, Ideas, People

  "Random thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.jewishworldreview.com. October 17, 2005.

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• It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

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  Greed, Use, Want

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• Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

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  Causes, Problem, Harm

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.312, Hoover Press

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• Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

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  Education, Self Esteem, School

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• By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

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  Past, People, Calling

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• The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

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  New York, Reality, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays”, p.266, Basic Books

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• The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

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  Couple, Rap, School

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• Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

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  Ideas

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.3, Basic Books

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• In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

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  Compassion, Political Language, People

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• There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

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  Sarcastic, Truth, Honesty

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• Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

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  Running, Government, Doe

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• You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

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  Needs, Resentment, Campus

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• The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

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  Reality, People, Ordinary

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

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  Country, Europe, America

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.

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  Envy, Community, Vision

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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. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

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  Country, Hero, Past

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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  Civilization, Generations, Too Late

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

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  Government, Potato Chips, Potatoes

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

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• [Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

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  Jobs, Believe, Men

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

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  Time, Business, Hands

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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