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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. (Thomas Sowell)
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. View quote
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. View quote
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The real minimum wage is zero. View quote
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. View quote
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. View quote
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. View quote
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Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened. (Thomas Sowell)
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. View quote
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Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated. View quote
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it. View quote
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. View quote
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Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. View quote
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. View quote
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One of the consequences of such notions as entitlements is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence. View quote
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. View quote
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Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get. View quote
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better. (Thomas Sowell)
Intellect is not wisdom. View quote
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. View quote
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. View quote
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? View quote
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