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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
― Thomas Sowell
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Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. ― Thomas Sowell
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.
stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. -Alexis de Tocqueville
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
