Thomas Sowell Quotes
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
