Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLFor the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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