Thomas Sowell Quotes
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
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I don't do social media.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
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And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, since central governments are seated in capitals.
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I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
