Thomas Sowell Quotes
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
