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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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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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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I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.
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I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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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.
