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.

Thomas Sowell

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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.'

Karin Slaughter
- Book
- Thought
- Start
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

Yann Martel
- You
- Rules
- Fiction
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

Walter Kirn
- America
- Nothing
- Congress
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

Jack Horner
- Up
- Time
- Year
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.

Vanessa Hudgens
- People
- Bad
- Want
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.

Barbra Streisand
- Women
- School
- High