The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price … - Thomas Sowell

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People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Thomas Sowell

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

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People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

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Andre Naffis-Sahely

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Mary Pipher

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

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