When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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