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Better Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the…
- The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.…
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- 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…
- Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
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- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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