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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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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I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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I don’t believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening.
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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?
