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- One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by…
- Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or…
- What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting…
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the…
- Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost?…
- Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
- I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the…
- The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and…
- It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold