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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas Sowell

Much of the self- righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: ( 1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?
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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.
Thomas Sowell (Is Reality Optional?, 1993)

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. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
Thomas Sowell (Is Reality Optional?, 1993)

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first- hand knowledge of an earlier era, they are replaced by people ignorant of those times and therefore easy targets for demagogues.
Thomas Sowell
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