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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

~Thomas Sowell

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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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 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

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All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 30th, 1930

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