Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.
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It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
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Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.
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It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
