Thomas Sowell

STATUS QUOtes — 20231213

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver

“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” — William Arthur Ward

“People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.” — John Wesley

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes–ah, that is where the art resides! ” — Arthur Schnabel

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20231211

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You don’t have power if you surrender all your principles — you have office.” — ​Ron Todd

“We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis.” — ​William Eisner

“Facts do not ‘speak for themselves.’ They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.” — ​Thomas Sowell

“Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.” — ​Paul Frank Baer

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230425

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.” — Eric G. Wilson

“We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs – it doesn’t really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It’s something that makes you feel – ‘I can do this stuff.'” — Michael Morpurgo

“No-one is [completely] equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” — Thomas Sowell

“A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.” — Frederico Fellini

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230130

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.” — Robert Caro

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” — Thomas Sowell

“One of the best feelings is finding someone who really gets you. A person who lets you be vulnerable and honest. The kind of person who encourages you to push past your flaws because they accept you as you are. Someone who never tells you that you’re too much of this and too little of that. Because to them you’re just enough of everything they love.” — Sylvester McNutt

“When they were naming the animals somebody got lazy… whats he doing?… eating ants… DONE!” — Demetri Martin

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220905

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.” — Shane Parrish

“To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.” — T. S. Eliot

“Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.” — Thomas Sowell

“Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something’s not accurate?” — Doug Stanhope

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20220626

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.” — Downton Abbey via Mr. Carson

“Since 1954, the raw speed of computers, as measured by the time it takes to do an addition, increased by a factor of 10,000. That means an algorithm that once took 10 minutes to perform can now be done [more than] 15 times a second.” — Maurice Wilkes, 2019

“You don’t need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.” — Nikki Rowe

“If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.” — Thomas Sowell

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210731

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It is the story that matters, not just the ending.” — Paul Lockhart

“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.” — Sean Stephenson

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did, but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.” — Thomas Sowell

“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” — Dennis Green

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210312

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” — Truman Capote

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.” — Libba Bray

“Me? I haven’t made all A’s in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.” — Matthew McConaughey

“Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.” — Thomas Sowell

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210118

Jeff

“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.” — Noam Chomsky

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” — Thomas Sowell

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“About one-third of the people in the street in New York City have a yoga mat. That alone would keep me from yoga. Carrying around a little rolled-up rug…. You know, New York used to be much more fashionable than that.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201211

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” — Carson McCullers

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest person can spread among a multitude of hypocrites [ed].” — Thomas Sowell

“In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.” — Ann N. Bridge

“If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.” — Bette Davis

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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