Thomas Sowell Quotes
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
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I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.
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The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.
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I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
