Thomas Sowell Quotes
The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?
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When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
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I think everybody benefitted from what I am calling a bubble finance system, a bubble economy and if we're ever going to right the system, we're going to have to stop this explosion of the federal debt. We need huge spending cuts, OK? Don't get me wrong, we need to raise regular taxes too but even beyond that it's not going to hurt if we want to reset the system to ask those who have benefitted disproportionately - remember, we got $60 trillion of net worth in the household sector. $45 trillion of that belongs to the top 5 percent.
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The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
