You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. - Thomas Sowell

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As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.

Thomas Sowell

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

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