Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.
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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
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My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.
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Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
