Thomas Sowell Quotes
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
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The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
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When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
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I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
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You're only one video away from going viral and changing your life.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
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I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
