Thomas Sowell Quotes
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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I'm not like most people around here who politick with you guys.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
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The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
