Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Thomas Sowell

Great quotes today from Dr. Sowell...

[B]laming economic crises on "greed" is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining [that] a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about "greed," which is constant like gravity.
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[I]f it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, that doesn't matter if it coos like a dove at Senate confirmation hearings.
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How long will it be before the public gets tired of the little know-it-all sermonettes by Barack Obama-- especially since nothing that he is doing is actually working?
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The Pope is more likely to have read Karl Marx than an environmentalist is to have read even a single book that criticized environmentalism.

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