Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
THOMAS SOWELLFreedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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