Thomas Sowell Quotes
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
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People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
