Thomas Sowell Quotes
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Quotes to Explore
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
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If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
