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" What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough. "
Timothy Noah
Problem
Earth
Enough
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" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "
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" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "
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Reach
" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "
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Line
Us
" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "
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" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
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Ideas
Save
" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "
Timothy Noah
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Think
" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "
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Go
Enough
" 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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Everyone
Pain
Animals
" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "
Timothy Noah
He
Sat
Last
" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "
Timothy Noah
World
Blame
You
" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "
Timothy Noah
America
Win
First
" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "
Timothy Noah
Institutions
Universities
Socialist
" If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education. "
Timothy Noah
World
Commitment
Education
" Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. "
Timothy Noah
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Customer
They Say
" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "
Timothy Noah
Raise
Never
Democratic
" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "
Timothy Noah
American
Whatever
Support
" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "
Timothy Noah
Violence
Perspective
American
" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "
Timothy Noah
Live
You
Inequality
" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "
Timothy Noah
Expansion
Out
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" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "
Timothy Noah
You
Find
Now
" 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. "
Timothy Noah
Success
Wisdom
Enjoy
" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "
Timothy Noah
Information
Meet
Along
" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "
Timothy Noah
Conservative
Serious
Person
" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "
Timothy Noah
Perfect
Food
Good
" Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. "
Timothy Noah
Man
Intelligent
Experience
" We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. "
Timothy Noah
Results
Someone
Nation
" Working people vote! "
Timothy Noah
Vote
People
Working
" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "
Timothy Noah
House
Survive
Way
" An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. "
Timothy Noah
Compete
Belief
Big
" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "
Timothy Noah
Cotton
Business
Batting