Thomas Sowell Quotes

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  

  Karl Lehmann
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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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• I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  

  Kate Voegele
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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
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• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
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• 'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
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• Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
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• Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Tolerance

• I'm an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Trying

• I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Up
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• At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it's just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I'm not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People

• When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Business

• I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Communism

• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Question
  • Revolution
  • Socialism

• In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
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  • Creativity

• Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Live
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• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Running
  • Economic
  • Socialism