Thomas Sowell Quotes
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
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I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
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Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
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What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
