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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24431b6 | curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e814782 | who had lost her mother | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6122771 | In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders wh.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1d16d50 | Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1247ebb | hunchback | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f4c618d | and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| be3a4cd | think it has been left alone so long--that it has grown all into a lovely tangle. I think the roses have climbed and climbed and climbed until they hang from the branches and walls and creep over the ground--almost like a strange gray mist. Some of them have died but many--are alive and when the summer comes there will be curtains and fountains of roses. I think the ground is full of daffodils and snowdrops and lilies and iris working their.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8f54cf2 | She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon--well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6c95ff7 | Fresh air won't tire me," said the young Rajah." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 981decd | because he felt so curiously comfortable. It was actually nice to be awake, and he turned over and stretched his limbs luxuriously. He felt as if tight strings which had held him had loosened themselves and let him go. He did not know that Dr. Craven would have said that his nerves had relaxed and rested themselves. Instead of lying and staring at the wall and wishing he had not awakened, his mind was full of the plans he and Mary had made .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c62346c | shall get well! I shall get well!" he cried out. "Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and ever!" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e780b14 | Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping judgement would not be too heavy upon him. | Zadie Smith | ||
| c7af0f1 | But i cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the *truth*. I have to worry about the truth that can be *lived with*. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 37563b4 | Outside the world of education, few would be confident, or even comfortable, claiming that it is a lack of self-esteem which leads to felonies or its presence which leads to Nobel Prizes. Yet American schools are permeated with the idea that selfesteem precedes performance, rather than vice-versa. The very idea that self-esteem is something earned, rather than being a pre-packaged handout from the school system, seems not to occur to many e.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 03f2058 | Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. | Randall Jarrell | ||
| fa237cf | As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets. | Randall Jarrell | ||
| 330ccd3 | As I continued to read the writings of conservative intellectuals, from Edmund Burke in the eighteenth century through Friedrich Hayek and Thomas Sowell in the twentieth, I began to see that they had attained a crucial insight into the sociology of morality that I had never encountered before. They understood the importance of what I'll call moral capital. (Please note that I am praising conservative intellectuals, not the Republican Party... | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| 258e49d | Geography is not egalitarian. | justice | Thomas Sowell | |
| 9be0db8 | More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 8c30852 | The remarkable reversal of public attitudes toward the Japanese over the years -- especially in Australia, Peru and the United States -- suggests that behavior and performance are more effective ways of changing other people's minds than moral crusades or emotional denunciations. | migrants | Thomas Sowell | |
| 0c5fb5d | At various times and places, particular individuals have argued that existing tax rates are so high that the government could collect more tax revenues if it lowered those tax rates, because the changed incentives would lead to more economic activity, resulting in more tax revenues out of rising incomes, even though the tax rate was lowered. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 4a76bc9 | It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made. While | Thomas Sowell | ||
| de758ab | In short, even though some individual slaveowners grew rich and some family fortunes were founded on the exploitation of slaves, that is very different from saying that the whole society, or even its non-slave population as a whole, was more economically advanced than it would have been in the absence of slavery. What this means is that, whether employed as domestic servants or producing crops or other goods, millions suffered exploitation .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 85ef861 | This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 72e7382 | But the actual arguments advocated by Secretary Mellon had nothing to do with a "trickle-down theory." Mellon pointed out that, under the high income tax rates at the end of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1921, vast sums of money had been put into tax shelters such as tax-exempt municipal bonds, instead of being invested in the private economy, where this money would create more output, incomes and jobs.[8" | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6db336e | What actually followed the cuts in tax rates in the 1920s were rising output, rising employment to produce that output, rising incomes as a result and rising tax revenues for the government because of the rising incomes, even though the tax rates had been lowered. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 34d614d | Such are the ways of politics, where the crusade of the hour often blocks out everything else, at least until another crusade comes along and takes over the same monopoly of our minds. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| f15af64 | A 1972 study showed that the amount of pollution per mile traveled by horse was a hundred times the amount of pollution per mile traveled by automobile.27 Since the cars produced in later years have had reduced pollution levels, the disparity today would be even greater. It should also be noted that the replacement of horses by automobiles made it possible to "restore more than 80 million acres of forestlands that had once been cleared for .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| c5c5f7c | Galling as it may be to be helpless to redress the crying injustices of the past, symbolic expiation in the present can only create new injustices among the living and new problems for the future, when newborn babies enter the world with pre-packaged grievances against other babies born the same day. Both have their future jeopardized, not only by their internal strife but also by the increased vulnerability of disunited society to external.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| af2a552 | would be hard to think of a more monocultural, insular and self-complacent nation than Japan--and vet the Japanese are among the leading participants in the international economy, in international scientific and technological developments, as well as in international travel and tourism. This is not a defense of insularity or of the Japanese, It is simply a piece of empirical evidence to highlight the non sequitur of the claim that internati.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e9f0d30 | The facts are unmistakably plain, for those who bother to check the facts. In 1921, when the tax rate on people making over $100,000 a year was 73 percent, the federal government collected a little over $700 million in income taxes, of which 30 percent was paid by those making over $100,000. By 1929, after a series of tax rate reductions had cut the tax rate to 24 percent on those making over $100,000, the federal government collected more .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 72e7762 | were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 23f5deb | A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5b67c57 | Foreign workers, attracted to Nigeria from other African countries during boom times, were deeply resented during hard times-and were brutally expelled en masse, largely to Ghana.1N | Thomas Sowell | ||
| c7523e8 | The tsetse fly infests more than half the mainland,"' making cattle and draft animals impracticable in the infected regions." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 8342ee9 | Some years ago, in my syndicated column, I challenged anyone to name any economist, of any school of thought, who had actually advocated a "trickle down" theory. No one quoted any economist, politician or person in any other walk of life who had ever advocated such a theory, even though many readers named someone who claimed that someone else had advocated it, without being able to quote anything actually said by that someone else. 2" | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6437e02 | If there is an optimistic aspect of preferential doctrines, it is that they may eventually make so many Americans so sick of hearing of group labels and percentages that the idea of judging each individual on his or her own performance may become more attractive than ever. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 56f6ddf | In fact, Bush's tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president to his last, just as Reagan's and Kennedy's tax cuts increased federal revenue after they were passed. As economist Thomas Sowell argued, "Obama knew then that tax rates and tax revenues do not automatically move in the same direction. In other words, he is lying when he talks as if tax rates and tax revenues move toge.. | Jack Cashill | ||
| 61ac151 | The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. "Equal opportunity" now means preferential treatment. "Voting rights" now include preferential chances to win. School desegregation no longer means the right to attend any public school, regardless of race, but being forced to attend where you are told, according to race. "Equal justice for all" now means compensatory benefits for so.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6b42040 | that does not distinguish Germans from Europeans in general--or from human beings in general, when it comes to vile or vicious things being said or done to any number of ethnic or other minorities in countries around the world. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 1e2102a | But, as the late Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler put it, "the typical university catalog would never stop Diogenes in his search for an honest man."25" -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 9ce5d10 | Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000-- a huge sum in the money of that era-- declined from well over a thousand in 1916 to fewer than three hundred in 1921. The total amount of taxable income earned by people making over $300,000 declined by more than four-fifths during those years.[11 | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 037839d | In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get--from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.--which determines how much their spending or costs will go up, not the other way around, as they represent it to the public. To say that costs are going up is no more than to say that the additional intake is being spent, rather than hoarded. When | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 9826205 | Far from being a national crisis of affordable housing, outrageous rents and astronomical home prices are largely confined to a relatively few places along the east and west coasts. Rent per square foot of apartment space in San Francisco is more than double what it is in Denver, Dallas, or Kansas City, and nearly three times as high as in Memphis. Home prices show even greater disparities. | Thomas Sowell |