Thomas Sowell Quotes

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Thomas Sowell

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Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Matthew Hale

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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun Tzu

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I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

Steven Van Zandt

GoodYouKnowBandRealGuy

You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.

Tony Rock

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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

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I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman.

Rivers Cuomo

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Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

Mary Schapiro

LionLawRulesDoneMoreWrite

One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

Loni Love

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As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

Jason Kander

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I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Debbie Allen

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It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

David Strathairn

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