Thomas Sowell Quotes
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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All are my friends. I have no enemies.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
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I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.
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Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
