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Thomas Sowell Quotes

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1930

Topics

Vision Mistakes Facts Attention Will

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

Life Death Me Life And Death Go Big

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

Me Picture Know Without Pretty Well

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

World Small Think Garbage Idiots

Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.

Michael Ashcroft

Son Experience Man Me Kind Gentle

I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

Time Friends You Right Time Know

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Great Quality People Me Revenge

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Success World End Easy Aware Quite

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Robert Baden-Powell

Work Best Game Look Play Kind

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Words Government Language Help Here

My family came from Ecuador.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Humor Ideas Interesting My Own Own

I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.

Dreams Brain Control Process Anxiety

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