“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: men
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Prices are important not because money is
“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: society
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Life in general has never been even
“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: life
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In liberal logic, if life is unfair
“In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: life
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If you have always believed that everyone
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: politics
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It is amazing that people who think
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
— Thomas Sowell
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Freedom has cost too much blood and
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: freedom
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Life in general has never been even
“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: government
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity:
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: politics
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Socialism in general has a record of
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Category: failure
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