Quote by Thomas Sowell
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to

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 is to trust them. – Thomas Sowell

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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell

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Socialism
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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. – Thomas Sowell

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Government
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. – Thomas Sowell

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best
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Failure
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I dont think theres any way it could have failed. We dont know failure in this band. We didnt know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word. – Roger Daltrey

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Failure

At first I wasnt sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. – Gordon Parks

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Failure

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. – Laurence J. Peter

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Failure

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. – James Allen

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Failure

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

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Your nature is the Buddha. – Bodhidharma

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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I cant really understand why it doesnt obsess everyone – I think it does really, Im just a little more out about it. – J. K. Rowling

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Death

Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Ideals