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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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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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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Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
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When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.
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Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
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Sometimes it seems to me that the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. And I know that's not rationally true. But sometimes it's okay for things not to be rationally true.
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Women really like the horses, more so than men.
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People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
