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 SOWELLThe 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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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