Thomas Sowell Quotes

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

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• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

  

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• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  

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• So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  

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• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

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• Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

  

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• And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!

  

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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.

  

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• In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

  

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• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  

  Dorothy Day
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• I don't judge anybody because I've been the one to party and look for the after party to begin! I have more fun now both when I DJ and in general.

  

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• Fiscally, I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate. As a former judge, I listen to all the facts, and I make a decision as to what I believe is in the best interest of the state.

  

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• There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

  

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• For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

  

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• I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

  

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• If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

  

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• Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.

  

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• I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.

  

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• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  

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• Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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