Thomas Sowell Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.
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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options
