Thomas Sowell Quotes
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
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I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
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Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
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Debate is the death of conversation.
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The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
