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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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 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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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
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Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
