Thomas Sowell Quotes
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.
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No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
