Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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Racism springs from ignorance.
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.
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I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.
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In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.
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I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
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All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
