Thomas Sowell Quotes
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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I'd like to think we have the best shot here, but I'm not going to say that.
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The secret of directing is working with really good people.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that's every performed. She's a leader, she's been gracious, she's somebody to cherish forever. She's a real loss to the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and, I think, to the world.
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
