Thomas Sowell Quotes
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I take my work seriously.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
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In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
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All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
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I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.
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Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.
