People who pride themselves on their complexity and deride others for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
~ Thomas Sowell
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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.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Since we do not have a national consensus on what success in higher education would consist of, no matter what happens, some sizable part of the population is going to regard the situation as a disaster.
~ John Searle
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As with taxation and relations between the sexes, higher education is essentially and continuously contested territory. Given the history of that crisis rhetoric, one’s natural response to the current cries of desperation might reasonably be one of boredom.
~ John Searle
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