Thomas Sowell Quotes
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
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In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
