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May Power

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.

- Thomas Sowell

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I boxed 15 years in a club.

- Uwe Boll

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Fact Work

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.

- Thomas Sowell

Science People

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

- Thomas Sowell

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.

- Thomas Sowell

April Being

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

- Thomas Sowell

Failure

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

- Thomas Sowell

Truth

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

- Thomas Sowell

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Mind Power

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

- George Orwell

Power First

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

- Saul Alinsky

Power

I like power and I like to use it.

- Sam Rayburn

Power

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

- Carroll Quigley

Power

All children have creative power.

- Brenda Ueland

Power

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

- Josh McDowell