Thomas Sowell Quotes
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsaexpuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acriiudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
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Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.
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Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.
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All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
