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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance.”

Thomas Sowell

“Can anyone explain why, when someone dies, most of what he has saved up over a lifetime should be turned over to politicians, rather than to his heirs?”

Thomas Sowell

“Your problem is that you are trying to understand it as an economic story. Once you think of it as a crime story, you’ll get it.”

Insider to Matt Taibbi early on in the subprime crisis

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.”

John Adams

“Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.”

Thomas Sowell

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom — and all our freedom — to be eroded away, bit by bit.”

Thomas Sowell

“The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism. But their know-it-all mindset leads repeatedly and pervasively in that direction, even if by small steps, each of which might be called ‘micro-totalitarianism.'”

Thomas Sowell

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.”

Thomas Sowell

“Even parents who complain about low academic standards in the schools seem not to understand that academic achievement is not the real priority of today’s educators. Classroom brainwashing is the goal, though it is expressed in prettier and more pious words than this.”

Thomas Sowell

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“To this very moment slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained.”

Thomas Sowell

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“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”

Thomas Sowell

“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.'”

Thomas Sowell

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain

“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans– anything except reason.”

Thomas Sowell

“The oldest fraud is the belief that the political left is the party of the poor and the downtrodden.”

Thomas Sowell

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“Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”

Thomas Sowell

“One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician.”

Thomas Sowell

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.”

P.J. O’Rourke

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”

Thomas Sowell

“The older I get, the more I realize that arguing on the basis of facts and logic only gets you labeled as someone who is out of step with the times, if not lacking in compassion.”

Thomas Sowell

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