Thomas Sowell Quotes
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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I've never been fired in my life.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
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From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
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I was definitely starting to feel it. I wanted the ball in my hands. I'm so happy, it's unbelievable.
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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
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When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this; I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.
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A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.
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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
