Thomas Sowell Quotes
One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
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Began to transform her public persona from the warm, fun-loving 'Queen of nice' to a self-proclaimed '(expletive)'.
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I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
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Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
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I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
