Thomas Sowell Quotes
Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
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Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
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I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.
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Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
