Thomas Sowell Quotes

Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
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• I work in a very contained environment, usually.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
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  • Very

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
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  • Car

• I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

  

  Questlove
  • Real
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• It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
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• I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Design

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

  

  Rachel True
  • Life
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• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
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• The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • God
  • Long
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• When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Eyes
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• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Want
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• Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Power
  • Inferior
  • Potency

• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

  

  George Washington
  • May
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• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Teenager
  • Generations

• Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Interest

• The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.

  

  Mel Karmazin
  • Choices
  • Economy
  • Unprecedented

• Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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  • Economy
  • Economics