Thomas Sowell Quotes
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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I would love to go to film school.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
