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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.

Thomas Sowell

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute

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