#pa

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#corrected #dogmatism #facts #mistakes #pay

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

The only certain freedom's in departure. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#action #any #believed #cause #confidence

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

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

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