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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.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
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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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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 most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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