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" More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. "
Dennis Prager
Dictators
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Harm
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" When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. "
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" If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? "
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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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" 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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" If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities. "
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" I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air. "
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" With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset. "
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" I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health. "
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American
" There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. "
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" American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. "
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" But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice. "
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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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" Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system. "
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" The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. "
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They Say
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" Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. "
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Racism
Country
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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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Get
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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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" All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth. "
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Reading
Law
Life
" In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. "
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Purpose
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" Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do. "
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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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True
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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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" 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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" The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution. "
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" Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. "
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" There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. "
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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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" 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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" Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. "
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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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