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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.

Thomas Sowell

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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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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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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