Thomas Sowell Quotes

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.

Thomas Sowell

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KnowledgeMoneySocietyInformation

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

Jeremy Irons

SpiritualToo MuchClubSeemsLike

Every time I break up with a guy, I play 'Kerosene' in my car on repeat.

Meghan McCain

CarTimePlayUpBreakRepeat

The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Stella McCartney

NatureRespectI AmParentsWorld

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Steve Martin

LovePeopleYouWayFirstSomething

I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg's Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that's only 10 minutes away.

Simone Biles

RedBreakfastEggGymGoBerries

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

Tom Waits

WorldLookingVoiceWantMy OwnOwn

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Lucretius

FlowersBitternessFountainTaste

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

Lolo Jones

CollegeOutContractLikeFactMost

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Joyce Carol Oates

ChildYoungTempleSacredBooks

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

Judge Reinhold

LifeAcceptanceThinkNeverPraise

After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

Arnon Goldfinger

ChildhoodEndingCameraFeelingReal

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

August Krogh

BirdsFlyFlightShowFunctionFact

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