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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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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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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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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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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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
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We Filipinos are the most promising people in the world. We have unheard-of-possibilities. There have never been a people similarly situated. Here we are in the Orient with our Oriental thoughts and sentiments, but living amid a civilization more Western than was ever known in The East. The Philippines is the only country where East meets West. The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.
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I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
