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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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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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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

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