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Likely Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely…
- What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly…
- 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…
- Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
- For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as…
- Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study…
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