“ There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. ”
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“ People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right – especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong. ”
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“ People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ”
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“ It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ”
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“ I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else’s money. ”
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“ It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ”
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“ It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ”
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“ People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ”
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“ It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ There are only two ways of telling the complete truthanonymously and posthumously. ”
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“ People who have acquired academic degrees, without acquiring many economically meaningful skills, not only face personal disappointment and disaffection with society, but also have often become negative factors in the economy and even sources of danger, especially when they lash out at economically successful minorities and ethnically polarize the whole society they live in. . . . . In many places and times, softsubject students and intellectuals have inflamed hostility, and sometimes violence, against many other successful groups. ”
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“ Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ”
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“ People who have acquired academic degrees, without acquiring many economically meaningful skills, not only face personal disappointment and disaffection with society, but also have often become negative factors in the economy and even sources of danger, especially when they lash out at economically successful minorities and ethnically polarize the whole society they live in. . . . . In many places and times, softsubject students and intellectuals have inflamed hostility, and sometimes violence, against many other successful groups. ”
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“ Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ”
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“ People who have acquired academic degrees, without acquiring many economically meaningful skills, not only face personal disappointment and disaffection with society, but also have often become negative factors in the economy and even sources of danger, especially when they lash out at economically successful minorities and ethnically polarize the whole society they live in. . . . . In many places and times, softsubject students and intellectuals have inflamed hostility, and sometimes violence, against many other successful groups. ”
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“ Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. ”
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“ The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. ”
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“ Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation… ”
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“ Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation… ”
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“ It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. ”
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“ Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values… ”
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“ 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… ”
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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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“ 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. ”
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