Thomas Sowell Quotes
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
