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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

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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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
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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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
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
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
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
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
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
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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Department Diversity Republic Social Time
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

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