Thomas Sowell Quotes
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
