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Results Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good…
- The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is…
- It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the…
- The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as…
- The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura…
- Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result…
- Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage…
More Results Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster
- All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. — Sai Baba
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and… — Michele Bachmann
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille