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Decision Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision…
- 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…
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in…
- In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â…
- Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay…
- The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act…
- The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more…
- Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
- Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as…
- 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…
- Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ……
- Consequences matter more than intentions, and not just the immediate consequences, but also the longer run repercussions of decisions, policies, and institutions.
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- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
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