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"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. And you try to get the best trade-off you can get. That's all you can hope for."

— Sowell, Thomas

Context: Sowell's spoken formulation — from speeches and interviews — of the central thesis of *A Conflict of Visions* (1987). The constrained vision holds that policy is never about solving problems but about managing unavoidable tradeoffs, where gains in one dimension always come at cost in another.

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