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“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”

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Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a renowned economist, born on June 30, 1930. His research spans across various fields such as economic policy, race, and social issues, having a profound impact on economics and the social sciences. more

“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.”

Thinking Knows May Stories Hair Doctors Engineers Unbelievable Veils Babe Diplomats

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Years Body Might Pain Felt Prayer Talking Heard Understood Years Ago Eternity Died Oneself Spots Loved Ones Castles

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.”

Giving Feels Heart Made Soul Hard Would Be Wanted Night Next Path Week Goes On Tomorrow My Heart Giving Up Sick Depth Bottom Rage My Soul Spite Midst Tempest Next Week

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.”

“The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.”

Writing Two Starting Hardest Stopping Hardest Thing

Author:Stewart O'Nan

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

People Men Two Important Shoulders Two Things Things In Life

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.”

Ifs Humans Long Answers Break Rights Program Democratic Human Rights Debt Wide Improvement Relief Cycles Aggressive Continents Urban Farming Public Health Subsistence Squalor

Author:Jon Stewart

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