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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.

Thomas Sowell

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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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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