Thomas Sowell Quotes
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.Thomas Sowell
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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.
Harold E. Varmus -
I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
Hannah Kent -
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.
T. J. Thyne -
I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
Kara Walker -
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.
Barry Sternlicht -
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
Irving Fisher
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It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
Brian Tracy -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
Elliott Carter -
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.
Nelson Goodman -
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
Abraham Lincoln
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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.
Aristotle -
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
Vladimir Lenin -
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin -
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
Albert Einstein -
Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
William Jennings Bryan
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To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
J. B. Pritzker -
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Cherrie Moraga -
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.
William Lawrence Bragg -
I don't discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me, I don't respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don't need to talk about.
Al B. Sure! -
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
Thomas Sowell