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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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Decision Insight Knowledge Society Talent Throw
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
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Blood History Human Politics Story Treasure
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Distribution Earn Economics Income Literature Money
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
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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Complain Produce Refuse Sad Time
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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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge

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