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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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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That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.
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I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.
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The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.
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The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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It is our job to ensure everyone feels included and empowered. We are living in a world that is increasingly diverse, and part of helping kids develop and be those successful leaders of tomorrow is helping them learn how to embrace multiculturalism and diversity.
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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.
