We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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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.
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