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Need Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you…
- Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the…
- Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
- Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw…
- The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
- The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be…
- Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain…
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey