Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
THOMAS SOWELLDon’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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