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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… 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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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.
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I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.
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With the disintegration of all that Nietzsche had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
