If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
THOMAS SOWELL
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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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