Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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