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I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over what are you left with? When I retire I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
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 the Vietnam war with disastrous results.
Quotes By Thomas Sowell
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they...
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and...
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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of...
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people...
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is ask how...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten...
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual...
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts...
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything...
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and...
Quotes About War
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
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And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...