People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
THOMAS SOWELLDon’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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