Thomas Sowell Quotes
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Quotes to Explore
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.
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In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.
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When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.
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If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
