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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary…
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting…
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do…
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because…
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to…
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed…
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Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what…
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Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed…
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