"If you can't beat them or join..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?
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“The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?”
“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.”
“In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.”
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“All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.”
“I went to the top lady, the Queen, sobbing and I said, ''What do I do? I'm coming to you, what do I do?''And she said, ''I don't know what you should do, Charles is hopeless''. And that was it, that was help.”
“I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.”
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“Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”
“Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”