Thomas Sowell Quotes
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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A million years went by quick.
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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
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I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.
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If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
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Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.
