"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
-Thomas Sowell
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"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.“
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"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."
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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."
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"Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
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