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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

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