Thomas Sowell Quotes
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
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While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
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There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.
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You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
