Thomas Sowell Quotes
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
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There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
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That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
