Thomas Sowell Quotes
The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
