Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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But, in 1968, I was the defense minister implementing a political decision, convinced that there were grounds for that on the basis of the information available to us then.
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The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and you're done.
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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
