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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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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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.
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None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
