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Things Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling.…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a…
- Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply:Â happen:Â to people, rather than be being caused…
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.…
- It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence…
- All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
- In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and…
- 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…
- All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison…
- Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
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