Thomas Sowell Quotes
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
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Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.
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Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
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I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.
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I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.
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Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.
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Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
