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" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "
Timothy Noah
Your
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" Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. "
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" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "
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" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "
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" 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. "
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" Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. "
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Intelligent
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" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "
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" If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. "
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People
" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
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Ideas
Save
" 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
" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "
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Us
Protection
Military
" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "
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Inequality
Unhappiness
" The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game. "
Timothy Noah
Congress
Off
Military
" 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. "
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Strategy
Election
Think
" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "
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Health
Finance
" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "
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Committed
Democrats
Greenhouse
" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "
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Say
Care
Equality
" The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. "
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Rich
Society
American
" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "
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More
World
Washington
" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "
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You
Taxes
Say
" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "
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World
Blame
You
" 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
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
Timothy Noah
Me
Never
Politician
" There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. "
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Better
World
Rich
" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "
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Democrats
Pathetic
Bitter
" The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.' "
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Want
Side
Now
" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "
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1990s
Taught
Veterans
" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "
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Four
Insurance
Same
" We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. "
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Money
Need
College
" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "
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Republicans
Inflation
Seem