Thomas Sowell Quotes
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One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.
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I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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What's gone is gone. You cannot change things so what is the point in being an overthinker?
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.
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Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
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There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.
