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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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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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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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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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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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.
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What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
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I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.
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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.
