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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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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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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Its extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
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We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.
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An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
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You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
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Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
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There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.
