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Born: 1948-08-02
Profession: Journalist
Nation: American
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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

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Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

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Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

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For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

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I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

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Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

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Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

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Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

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Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

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That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

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The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

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The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

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The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

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The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

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The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

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There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

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Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

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Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

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The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

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The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

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To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

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If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

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The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

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Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

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In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

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Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

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Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

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Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

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Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

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Socialism values equality more than liberty.

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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

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Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

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Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

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For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

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The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

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Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

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The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

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The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

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Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

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