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| 0622adb | Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning science, mathematics, and a foreign language, American school children are sitting around in circles, unburdening their psyches and "expressing themselves" on scientific, economic and military issues for which they lack even the rudiments of competence. Worse than what they are not learning is .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 80ccd39 | Much of what is taught in our schools and colleges today seeks to break down traditional values, and replace them with more fancy and fashionable notions, of which "a duty to die" is just one." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| c2b2f42 | He talks about the way in which the American academy "assigns an official group identity" to students, eliminating the distinction "between voluntary association and imposed group identity." For example, "a Jewish student who is totally assimilated--whose Jewish identity is totally unimportant to him--goes to college and is assigned a special Jewish advisor." The academy also distinguishes between people who "own" their sexual, racial, or g.. | Bruce Bawer | ||
| 913cd6e | The virtually unanimous support of bilingualism among Hispanic activists, "leaders" and "spokesmen"--in contrast to Hispanic parents--is understandable only in terms of the self-interest of those activists, "leaders" and "spokesmen," who benefit from the preservation of a separate ethnic enclave, preferably alienated from the larger society." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 7a8f6b7 | languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 08ed823 | The United States as a whole is larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 274786c | But his was an understandable mistake, given how little attention is paid to accuracy in history and how often history is used as just a propaganda tool in current controversies. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 349e1d9 | The traditional fixed-rate 30-year mortgages, which were once a majority of all mortgages, were no longer a majority during the housing boom, as ARMs and other "creative" ways of financing the purchase of a home grew rapidly to cope with soaring housing prices. Such innovative mortgages quickly went from being rare to becoming common, especially in places with very high housing costs." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 92289f5 | A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| a12280f | Including the differential mortgage loan approval rates between Asian Americans and whites shows that the same methods to conclude that that blacks are discriminated against in mortgage lending would also lead to the conclusion that whites are discriminated against in favor of Asian Americans, reducing this whole procedure to absurdity, since no one believes that banks are discriminating against whites..."[W]hen loan approval rates are not .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 0667b64 | Income tax rules also made borrowing against a home's equity attractive. Because mortgage interest payments can be deducted for income tax purposes, the interest paid on home equity loans could also be deducted, although interest on credit card debt or other debt was not deductible. Therefore it often paid anyone with any other kind of debt to pay off that debt with a home equity loan, whose interest would be deductible for income tax purpo.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 982b3e5 | millions of people died in the war "to make the world safe for democracy"--a war that led to autocratic dynasties being replaced by totalitarian dictatorships that slaughtered far more of their own people than the dynasties had?" | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 1c3b207 | Evidence is fact that discriminates between one theory and another. Facts do not ,,speak for themselves." they speak for or against competing theories. Theories can be devastated by facts but they can never be proven correct by facts. What empirical verification can do is to reveal which of the competing theories currently being considered is more consistent with that which is known factually. Some other theory may come along tomorrow that .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 089a018 | People who have already been out in the real world, practicing for years whatever their particular specialty might be, have some basis for determining which things are relevant enough to go into a curriculum to teach those who follow. The idea that students can determine relevance in advance is one of the many counterproductive notions to come out of the 1960s. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 7313fbd | The next time you see a bum leaving drug needles in a park where children play or urinating in the street, you are seeing your tax dollars at work and the end result of the vision of the anointed. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| bb1c78d | Moreover, even in the absence of accumulating personal experience, it was difficult to believe that soaring murder statistics reflected simply better record keeping, since it had always been hard to ignore a dead body. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 48d059a | Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| ce70536 | opportunity alone is not sufficient for economic or other accomplishments. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| d3a92b0 | As George J. Stigler said of some of his fellow Nobel Laureates, they "issue stern ultimata to the public on almost a monthly basis, and sometimes on no other basis." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 47af0b9 | The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policies imposed upon Africa by the conquerors. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| bc49778 | The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| deb872c | In short, some of the least qualified students, taught by the least qualified professors in the lowest quality courses supply most American public school teachers. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 68afdba | Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: "Always settle them cases yourself." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 3164d72 | Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as "stereotypes" or "racism." -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 58ee9e3 | The crucial question is not whether evils exist but whether the evils of the past or present are automatically the cause of major economic, educational and other social disparities today. The bedrock assumption underlying many political or ideological crusades is that socioeconomic disparities are automatically somebody's fault, so that our choices are either to blame society or to 'blame the victim.' Yet whose fault are demographic differe.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5ebf643 | Nothing is more complex than avoiding the obvious | explanations politics | Thomas Sowell | |
| 0114668 | That some leader dangerous to the basic institutions of American society would arise, Lincoln thought inevitable. Safeguarding these institutions would require a public sufficiently united, sufficiently attached to freedom, and sufficiently wise, "to successfully frustrate his designs." Today it would also require a public sufficiently resistant to incessant criticisms and condemnations of their society for failing to achieve cosmic justice.. | social-justice | Thomas Sowell | |
| 66f6618 | Engels said: "what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| ff553db | In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called "social justice" might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 7e5dba4 | Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit their own use of scarce resources desired by others. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e4b4a1a | Piketty's crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is supposedly subjected to their control or influence. It is a vision divorced from demonstrable facts, however consonant it may be with prevailing preconceptions. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5bf0e55 | In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| f71402e | The intelligentsia in the media can decide what to emphasize, what to downplay and what to ignore entirely when it comes to race. These may be individual choices, rather than a conspiracy, but individual choices growing out of a common vision of the world can produce results all too similar to what is produced by centralized censorship or propaganda. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| cec1361 | In the opening essay of his 2005 book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Thomas Sowell neatly summarized some of these findings: The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among Southern whites included an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory mar.. | Jason L. Riley | ||
| 43a2fe0 | The economist Thomas Sowell has spent decades researching racial and ethnic groups in the United States and internationally. And his findings show that political activity generally has not been a factor in the rise of groups from poverty to prosperity. | Jason L. Riley | ||
| 24460ad | happens to be a two-L and an IE Allie. Besides, Reynolds | J.A. Jance | ||
| 97af00a | Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo | Overeaters Anonymous | ||
| 0baef80 | I became a very timid individual. I became introspective. I wondered what had made me act the way I had acted. Why had I killed my fellow men in war, without any feeling, remorse, or regret? And when the war was over, why did I continue to drink and swagger around and get into fistfights? Why did I like to dish out pain, and why did I take positive delight in the suffering of others? Was I insane? Was it too much testosterone? Women don't d.. | Thom Jones | ||
| 8a1cfc0 | When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg | Overeaters Anonymous | ||
| 41b8503 | One of the most common precursors to relapse is insufficient attendance at OA meetings. | Overeaters Anonymous | ||
| eda1bc3 | How do we react when we don't get our own way? How do we react when people disagree with us? Are we intolerant of differences? Do we try to smooth stormy waters, or are we troublemakers? Have we insisted on being the center of attention? Have we acted offensively just to be noticed? Are we afraid that we won't be recognized or respected or loved? Do we fear that we won't get our share | Overeaters Anonymous | ||
| 276845b | la mente es una influencia importante en la curacion, para mejorar o para empeorar. | Andrew Weil | ||
| 6a1b619 | There were two books that really had a significant impact on me on the issue of drugs: One was Andrew Weil's book, The Natural Mind. The | Stanton Peele | ||
| 50f8573 | Something had changed. He had journeyed--as on rare occasions a man must--till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower. | love | E.M. Forster |