Thomas Sowell Quotes

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

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• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

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• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

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• I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

  

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• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

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• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

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• The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

  

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  

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• When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don't want to do it any more, when you think it's hard.

  

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• It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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