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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell

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