Thomas Sowell Quotes
Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.
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We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
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In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.
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Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.
