Thomas Sowell Quotes
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
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She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
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Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
