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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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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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I have a problem asking shareholders to vote for someone who has no intention of serving a full term. If I thought the search would take more than a year, that would be another situation.
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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
