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" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

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" Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. "

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" Expressing truth is hard work. "

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" Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. "

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" Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. "

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" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "

" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "

" The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes. "

" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "

" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "

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" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "

" Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. "

" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "

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" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

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" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "

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" When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.' "