Thomas Sowell Quotes
If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination
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When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.
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What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.
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I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only American gospel or soul music, it's whenever somebody decides to do music in a way that's honest and passionate. I got into the Motown songs. It had to do with where I come from - we don't really have that where I come from, the sense of mystery and the pain. Sweden has been a wealthy and happy country for some time now. I think I got really drawn to that.
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If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?
