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Football is like war. It's about taking territory.
Condoleezza Rice
About
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.
Ben Carson
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Decided
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When you want to attract people to buy a product, they must have a certain level of likeness for the product.
A.Y Makun
People
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Walter Dean Myers
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
Condoleezza Rice
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
Condoleezza Rice
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Cannot
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I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.
Condoleezza Rice
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Bush
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
About
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Believe
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
Condoleezza Rice
Alabama
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell
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Baseball Game
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
Considerable
Extent
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
Anxious
Error
General
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
Walter Dean Myers
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
Exact
Greatness
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
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Because
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
Betrays
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His
Industry
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
Walter Dean Myers
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
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Constitution
Eternal
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers
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I Write
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Associate
Bad
Bad Men
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell
Accepts
Blacks
Bottom
Class
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Edmund Burke
Between
In My Opinion
Justice
Liberty
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell
Accounting
Balanced
Balanced Budget
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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Laws
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
Delusion
Give
Liberties
Never
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers
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Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell
Accomplished
Actually
Against
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
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America
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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Applause
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers
Being
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
Beauty
Happiness
Of
Promise
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Thomas Sowell
Blatant
Could
Failure
General
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Thomas Sowell
Anything
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Despair
Never
But
Work
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Walter Dean Myers
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Being Smart
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Thomas Sowell
Basic
Best
Decide
Most
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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Commands
Free
Indeed
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Ben Jonson
Choice
Consists
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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Fear
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Jonson
Art
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Thomas Sowell
Dishonorable
Few
Few Things
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson
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