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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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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If you have someone too famous, it's difficult to make a group, because you see just her.
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What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
