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 have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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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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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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Whether it's Brad Pitt up there, if there's a good moment up there, and you get pulled into the emotion, you're not thinking, 'Oh, that's Brad Pitt. He's an actor, and he's famous.' That's kind of the nature of storytelling, right? You sit around the fire and tell a story, and you can get sucked into that story.
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If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.
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There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
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Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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.
