Thomas Sowell Quotes
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I like musicals and I love music.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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I'm very humble.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.
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Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.
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Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
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No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner. But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
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Dying's a boring side effect.
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In stages, the impossible becomes possible.
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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
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When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
