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Common Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and…
- One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it…
- Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
More Common Quotes
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life. — Frederick Lenz
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain