"At its core, after all, what is the free market? It’s a mechanism designed to solve a coordination problem, arguably the most important coordination problem: getting resources to the right places at the right cost."

James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say, and then don't say it."

Sam Levenson, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail August 25, 2010

In the latest issue of The Landowner I ridicule Britain’s Royal Academy for putting on a show of what Renaissance artists should have painted if they’d been smart, nice and sophisticated like us.

"the mortadella of philosophers. Little globules of rich, fatty thinking, in vast quantities of baloney."

P.J. O'Rourke on Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Noah Richler in National Post December 6, 2001

 "Every right is a divine right."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 20, 1924 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)

"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t."

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