Thomas Sowell Quotes
People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.
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People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'
