Thomas Sowell Quotes
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s 'financial womb,' creating 'The Father’s ‘Catch-22’': loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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Our parents, loved ones, and friends are getting cancer. So we need to know how to care for them, support them, and understand what the hell is going on. I don't think it's that hard to reach them: you have to go where they are - online. You have to speak their language - humour, wit, and edge. And you have to be honest, authentic and bold.
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I'm a paranoid person. I really am.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
