Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowellis an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 June 1930
CityGastonia, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
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All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.
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The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.
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Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
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President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
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Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
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One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on t