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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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Country Human Vote
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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Missing Pieces Principles
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Home May Years
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Making Money Recessions
We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Parent People Successful
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Inquiry Lines Scientist
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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Fighting Reading Writing
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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Exertion Responsibility Way
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Good Lending Reckless Times
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Black People Wind
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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America Beautiful Sleep
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science

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