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Thomas Sowell Quotes

«Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.»
«the so-called ?Negro dialect? is simply a variation on the ordinary Southern accent.»
«The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.»
«Cultures are not 'superior' or 'inferior.' They are for better or worse adapted to a particular set of circumstances.»
«Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.»
«As a result of 'evolving standards' and 'nuanced' judicial decisions, we no longer have clear-cut rights. We have a ticket to a crapshoot in a courtroom. That ticket is worth a lot more to those with slick lawyers than to ordinary citizens.»

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