Thomas Sowell Quotes
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
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I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.
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I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her.
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With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.
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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
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I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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I have a flirtatious personality.
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I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
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Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
