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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.

Thomas Sowell

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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For 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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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