Thomas Sowell Quotes
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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I was afraid to express myself for a while.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
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Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving.
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I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.
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... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
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We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
