Thomas Sowell Quotes
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
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What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.
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It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
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An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.
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We’re playing pretty damn well these days, and that’s fuel right there.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. … Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?
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The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.
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People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
