In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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