The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Quote by Thomas Sowell
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
- Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
- People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
- What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Best Quotes
- If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
- Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
- The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
- Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.