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Thomas Sowell | good

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.

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Thomas Sowell | funny

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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Thomas Sowell | freedom

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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Thomas Sowell | freedom

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 it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

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Thomas Sowell | failure

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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Thomas Sowell | failure

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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Thomas Sowell | education

Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

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Thomas Sowell | business

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.

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Thomas Sowell | best

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

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Thomas Sowell | best

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

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