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Very Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- 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.…
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side
- To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
- What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid…
- All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
- 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…
- Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only…
- People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets…
- 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…
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