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Thomas Sowell Quotes: We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.
         

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.


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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.



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



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Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.



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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.



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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.



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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.



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 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.





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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.



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