Thomas Sowell Quotes
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I want to be a major force.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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We willing to work with anybody that wants to work with us. It's open arms. It ain't no hating on no situation.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
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All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.
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However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.
