Thomas Sowell Quotes
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.
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I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
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A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'
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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
