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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell

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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

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good
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them. – Richard M. Nixon

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Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. – George Saunders

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Politics

The difference between a liberal and a conservative is that one considers truth an inconvenience while the other opposes it on principle. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Politics

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You cant do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you – and its often a long haul. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. – Francis Bacon

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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Equality

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The publics faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. – Ron Fournier

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Faith

Ive found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. – Julian Clary

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