Thomas Sowell Quotes
In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
Quotes to Explore
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
Samantha Power
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
Candy Crowley
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Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
Barry Diller
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
Ian McDonald
Foreigner
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O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.
Anselm of Canterbury
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
Caitlin Moran
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Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.
Lady Gaga
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I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.
Judith Butler
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We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.
Muhammad Ali
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I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.
Abderrahmane Sissako
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer
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In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
