Thomas Sowell Quotes
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I don't think there is much American music.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
