Thomas Sowell Quotes
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
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A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?
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Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
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How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.
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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
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When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
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Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
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The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?
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I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
