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Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

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Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or whee we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Begin, Fact, Knowing, Think, Thinking, Wish

High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

Class, Heart, Opponents, Paying, Same, Winning

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

Among, Full, People, Political, Things, Washington

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Benefits, Handing, Like, Nothing, Political, Politician

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

War, Years, Decision, String, Against, United

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

Building, Community, Government, Money, People, Prices

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Follow, Groups, Having, Leader, Prosperity, Rose

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

Create, Design, Ideas, Living, People, Standard

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Among, Identity, Intellectuals, Remember, Trouble

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

High, Mail, Mean, Moral High Ground, Reader, Take

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

Careful, Consideration, Give, Giving, Side, Sides

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

Differences, Different, Except, Science, Similarities, Things

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Expensive, Isolation, Liberty, Littles, Reality

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

Believe, Enormous, Fall, Government, Hopes, Painful

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

Matter, Notion, Opportunity, Utopian, Whole

The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care. ' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

Buy, Cost, Country, Down, Government, Running

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Imperfection, Price Of Freedom, Tolerating, Freedom, Imperfections, Price

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Complete, Honesty, Sarcastic, Telling, Truth

Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist. ' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream. ' But the mainstream is itself the problem.

Constitution, Judging, Mainstream, Mean, Nominee, Person

To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

Black, Chaos, Diversity, Freedom, Self, Standards

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