Thomas Sowell Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
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Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
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When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Six feet of land was all that he needed.
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
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If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
