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Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This
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The twin propositions of this book are that we are at the end of the American project as the founders intended it, but that opportunities are opening for preserving the best qualities of the American project in a new incarnation.
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Charles Murray |
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Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference."
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Charles Murray |
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The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
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meritocracy
stratification
middle-class
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All systematic civil disobedience should involve acts that are malum prohibitum: illegal because the state says so, not because they are bad in themselves.
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Charles Murray |
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You're out of touch with reality in that regard.
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