Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

  

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• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  

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• I would not understand when people will tell me that 'Tum hi ho' has got more than 1 million views on YouTube. I was like, 'How does it make a difference?' Later, I would go to YouTube and see songs of Rihanna, Enrique etc. and would see their hits. Then I came to know the importance. Nowadays, you can judge from these sites how big is a sing.

  

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• There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

  

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• Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

  

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• I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

  

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• It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

  

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  

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• You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

  

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

  

  Thomas Sowell
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  • Students
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