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Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
- 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.
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
- The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
- The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
- The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
- Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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