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 SOWELLGovernment “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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