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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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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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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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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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 things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
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It's a year-to-year thing. And this year we decided no increase was appropriate.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
