Category: economist
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Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
Thomas Sowell
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody.
Thomas Sowell
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes
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Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes