Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.
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The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
