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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. --Neil Postman To
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Five decades later, it's clear that the problem isn't about race--it is nearly universal. The works of Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and J. D. Vance show that these tragic developments are not unique to any geographic or ethnic community. The share of white births occurring outside marriage is now roughly three in ten, which is higher than the "emergency" black rate in the 1960s. And although the teen pregnancy rate is down, the Urban Inst..
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Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.
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Travel to experience the difference between "need" and "want,"
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We would never have been crazy enough, insulated enough, bubble-wrapped enough, to think that it was impossible to sleep without it--especially at seventy-two degrees.
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Republican bloodbath in the Senate
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