Thomas Sowell Quotes

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

• Maturity
• Eternal
• Imperfection
• Crucial
• Vigilance

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• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

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• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

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• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

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• I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.

  

  Ben Carson
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• What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
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• Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo.

  

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• We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

  

  Bennie Thompson
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• When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
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• I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
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• When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

  

  Matt McGorry
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• I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

  

  Eric Cantona
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• Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

  

  Jesse Harris
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• I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

  

  Big Boi

• The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

  

  Janine Turner

• You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

  

  Master P
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• I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

  

  Marissa Mayer
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• In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

  

  William James
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• When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

  

  Bob Feller
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• Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

  

  William of Occam
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• Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal, and without it nothing thinks.

  

  Aristotle
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• I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

  

  Cecil Taylor
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• Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Maturity
  • Eternal
  • Imperfection