Thomas Sowell Quotes
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
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'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.
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I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.
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Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
