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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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah that's what I eat.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.
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If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.
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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.
