Thomas Sowell Quotes
The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
Thomas Sowell
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
Yuna
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
Tammy Duckworth
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward
The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
Camille Paglia
Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
Orson Scott Card
Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben Jonson
I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
Ben Carson
Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
Margaret Fuller
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Andrea Dworkin
The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Muhammad Ali
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.
Patrick Ness
The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
Thomas Sowell
