Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 78 of Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, Barbarians Inside the Gates:

Trade-offs are not just something thought up by conservative meanies. As long as what we want exceed what we have – and it’s been that way for thousands of years now – we are going to have to make trade-offs. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a carpenter or a CEO, whether you are down in a submarine or up in the dizzying heights of an editorial office in Times Square.