Clarence Thomas Quotes
I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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Everybody literally thinks I've had plastic surgery. My mom's family call her, and they're like, 'Did Hailey do her lips? Did she do her nose?' Do people want me to go to a doctor and have them examine my face so they can tell people I haven't? My face has just matured. I grew into my looks.
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What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.
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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.
