#heir

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

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#conservatives #donate #higher #identify #incomes

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#inevitably #people #their #time #waste

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.' ↗

— David Spade

#before #big #big head #could #friend

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. ↗

— James Spader

#being #campaign #during #email #event

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ↗

— James Spader

#closer #enables #i #important #important thing

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#how #i #i think #know #laurels

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#existed #feeling #go #group #had