Thomas Sowell Quotes
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Quotes to Explore
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
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I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Public interest is a very unruly horse.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.
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My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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I'll wake up and I'll train the next day. It's been like that since I started. I think I train harder, harder than the hardest workers in the off-season.
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We've got a lot of work to do before we win this game but we're back in it.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
