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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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
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You will ask how I felt about spending so much time with people who supported the Hitler regime. I will tell you that, since I had absolutely no choice in the matter, I no longer dared to think about it. To be in Germany at that time, pretending to be an Aryan, meant that you automatically socialized with Nazis. To me, they were all Nazis, whether they belonged to the party or not. For me to have made distinctions at that time—to say Hilde was a “good” Nazi and the registrar was a “bad” Nazi—would have been silly and dangerous, because the good ones could turn you in as easily and capriciously as the bad ones could save your life.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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We've all been underestimated at times. That's life.
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Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.
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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.
