Thomas Sowell Quotes
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
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A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.
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Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.
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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
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Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
