Thomas Sowell Quotes
Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
Thomas Sowell
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Bryan Adams
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
Flann O'Brien
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
Jack Straw
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde
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But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.
Oscar Wilde
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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
Oscar Wilde
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In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
Sebastiao Salgado
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You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains.
Joanne Rowling
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
Esther Duflo
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Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
Thomas Sowell