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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Thomas Sowell

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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

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