Thomas Sowell Quotes
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
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As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
