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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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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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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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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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
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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.
