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| 6a7f4ac | The main attraction of a generous NIT is that it could resolve an impasse. As matters stand, every element of limited government now faces a blanket objection: But what about poor people? An NIT could take poverty off the table by giving every adult an income above the poverty line. Doing so is probably the single most important step in getting the nation to think seriously about restoring limited government. The left has always claimed it .. | Charles Murray | ||
| b2c9fc0 | Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35. | Charles Murray | ||
| dd5e1e1 | That's the UBI. A cash grant, with a surtax, funded by eliminating the transfers that currently exist. I require that $3,000 be devoted to health care, but otherwise I will argue that many of the best effects of the UBI are fostered by the least direction: "Here's the money. Use it as you see fit. Your life is in your hands." | Charles Murray | ||
| bda7a6f | solutions are beyond the reach of the electoral process and legislative process. | Charles Murray | ||
| ddfc649 | Discarding the welfare state in favor of a universal basic income is no longer something that would be economically feasible in America's future. It is economically feasible right now. | Charles Murray | ||
| 8332b61 | In the decades ahead, a life well-lived will often have to be one that does not involve a job traditionally defined. A universal basic income will be an essential part of the transition to a world unlike any in the history of our species. | Charles Murray | ||
| fdcb9f6 | The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good Ame.. | education heritage literature | Charles Murray | |
| e6b2819 | An unavoidable side effect of ambition is to be gnawed by ambition anxiety about whether you're going to succeed. You're bound to feel it in your twenties and thirties. Put it away in your forties. By that time, you should have learned enough to recognize that fame and wealth are trivial--really, truly trivial--to a life well lived. | Charles Murray | ||
| 8faa2c5 | If I'm wrong, and you find yourself in an organization where sucking up is in fact a good way to get ahead, look for a new job. It's not a quality organization after all, no matter how glittering its public reputation may be. Life is too short to work there. | Charles Murray | ||
| e6fe5b6 | family structure that produces the best outcomes for children, on average, are two biological parents who remain married. Divorced parents produce the next-best outcomes. Whether the parents remarry or remain single while the children are growing up makes little difference. Never-married women produce the worst outcomes. All of these statements apply after controlling for the family's socioeconomic status.14 I know of no other set of import.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 7db84df | There is more to life than work, and a life without ample space for family and friends is incomplete. But this much should not be controversial: Vocation--one's calling in life--plays a large role in defining the meaning of that life. For some, the nurturing of children is the vocation. For some, an avocation or a cause can become an all-absorbing source of satisfaction, with the job a means of paying the bills and nothing more. But for man.. | Charles Murray | ||
| f9a98ec | the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world.... The supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but sof.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 5455439 | Since they are in fact academically gifted, it is fine to tell them that. Trying to hide their academic ability from them would be futile anyway. But they must also be told explicitly, forcefully, and repeatedly that their intellectual talent is a gift that they have done nothing to deserve. They are not superior human beings, but very, very lucky ones. They should feel humbled by their good luck. | Charles Murray | ||
| 2750b31 | In 1995, on the strength of the book, the famously conservative Hillsdale College invited me to participate in a series of lectures on welfare. My subject was to be "Race Relations and Welfare." Bell Curve author Charles Murray was also a speaker, and the evening before my talk he and I participated in a long private conversation with several others about race and IQ, and the implications of racial differences for American society. Lissa Ro.. | Jared Taylor | ||
| 35dbff9 | For a discussion of the Founders' view that a successful republic required a high level of virtue in the people, see Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2012 (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), chap. 6. 6 | Charles Murray | ||
| a287c43 | when the country began, the Founders were unanimously of the opinion that their creation could work in practice only because of qualities that already existed in the American people--their honesty, industriousness, religiosity, and morality, to name four that all of the Founders discussed in one way or another.5 | Charles Murray | ||
| 13f1753 | Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This | Charles Murray | ||
| bca7f66 | 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. | Charles Murray | ||
| fb99070 | 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." | Charles Murray | ||
| 435cc61 | The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. | culture meritocracy middle-class stratification | Charles Murray | |
| a04032e | You wanted something to happen, right? " Rick says. "For all of this to be leading up to something? Closure," Rick says, pointing at the manila envelope. "That is definitely one way to have closure." "I didn't say I wanted closure. Drama. I said I wanted drama." "What do you think drama is, Murray?" "How about something more open-ended?" "Oh sure, that can be arranged, too," Rick says. "But even open-ended stories have to end at some point,.. | Charles Yu | ||
| f1cb242 | All systematic civil disobedience should involve acts that are malum prohibitum: illegal because the state says so, not because they are bad in themselves. | Charles Murray | ||
| 8eb6798 | Psychiatrist Louann Brizendine states in The Female Brain, "Men use about seven thousand words per day. Women use about twenty thousand." | Karen Ehman | ||
| aa86d78 | Researchers have found that by the time a boy is seven months old, he can tell by his mother's face when she's angry or afraid. But by the time he's twelve months old, he's built up an immunity to her expressions and can easily ignore them. For girls, the opposite happens. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 3c3061d | Much to the scientists' surprise, the men, after seeing an emotional face for just one fifth of a second--so briefly that it was still unconscious--were more emotionally reactive than the women. But it's what happened to the men's facial muscles next that helped me explain Neil's guy face to Danielle. As the experiment proceeded, at 2.5 seconds, well into the range of conscious processing, the men's facial muscles became less emotionally re.. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 7bb9849 | The "nervous system environment" a girl absorbs during her first two years becomes a view of reality that will affect her for the rest of her life." | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 718f0d8 | When we read the Bible, we learn. However, when we write out biblical commands in a way that is personal to us, we allow the Word to take root deep within our hearts. This will help us the next time we are faced with a challenging situation and need to use words wisely. When we have trained our brain to recall and apply biblical nonnegotiables, we are equipped to speak, act, and react in ways that honor God. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 7f85c66 | Are you willing to try -- really try? If you've struggled with words like I have, you may have some mixed feelings in response to this question. You really do want to try, but you also remember times you've "really tried" and failed. If that's the case, allow me to whisper a little encouragement to that word-weary heart of yours. Believe me when I say that if it is possible for someone like me to run her words through the grid of God's holi.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 5741b17 | Just Because You Have a Reason to Retaliate Does Not Mean You're Justified in Doing So | Karen Ehman | ||
| 129871e | God is patient. He doesn't fly off the handle in anger. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 49bfc9c | Long before our words go wrong, our hearts are the place in which they fester and brew. We must take very careful care of our hearts and their condition so that the words that come forth will be pleasant and sweet instead of hurtful and bitter. But just how do we do this? | Karen Ehman | ||
| ea6d243 | Gracious words promote instruction" (16:21)." | Karen Ehman | ||
| 6f8846f | What is the result of intentionally speaking graciously to our family, friends, and other necessary people? Of loving them without stopping? Of containing our anger when we speak and dealing with them in a patient and faithful way? When we choose to lace our words with grace, healing happens: "Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones" (Proverbs 16:24). Yes," | Karen Ehman | ||
| 0337271 | Father, I face another day in which I will be called upon to use my words wisely and well. May they encourage those who listen. May they speak truth but also be said in love. May I pause before I pounce. May I be bold enough to speak when I would rather run away. Lord, I give my mouth to you today. May what comes forth be sweet and not bitter. May the journey each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May wh.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| c2ff819 | Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning" (Proverbs 10:12 - 13)." | Karen Ehman | ||
| b251129 | With our tongues we curse men and women who are made in God's likeness and then, at other times, we praise God. Out of our mouths flow both praising and cursing. But, says the New Testament writer, this should not be! James tells us that a spring cannot suddenly shoot out both sweet and bitter water. Neither can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine decide to grow a whole mess of figs instead of grapes. You can't get salt water from a fr.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 4234e65 | But wait. Have you prayed about it?" We are better poised to process life's troubles after petitioning God first. I'm still learning this lesson, but the calm I feel when I get the order straight encourages me to keep on trying." | Karen Ehman | ||
| 1d0b9e5 | In fact, if you are in the middle of a heated discussion with someone and they ask, "Well, what do you think?" it is perfectly reasonable to tell them you don't yet know what you think. Yes, this may frustrate some people. They may think you're copping out. They may even accuse you of not knowing your own mind. But I have found that many times what I was going to say (but thankfully didn't!) was not in the end what I wanted to express. Givi.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| c26ba72 | bound to experience frustration, anger, and at times, wounded feelings. People who are not wired as we are, who don't think like we do, and who make decisions and carry out actions we would never dream of, are going to rub us the wrong way. That's a fact. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 1dc2ddd | we read a little farther in James, we find that the tongue cannot be tamed (James 3:7 - 8). Every creature, reptile, bird, or animal can be tamed, but not the tongue. Imagine a colossal circus full of every kind of creature: dancing bears, prancing horses -- even a ferocious looking feline or two performing tricks or jumping through hoops when their trainers give the signal. But way off in one corner stands a booth with a closed curtain and.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 1071ada | If there is room in your heart, you'll make room in your home. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 1989600 | Judgment does not win others over. Kindness does. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 3106d3a | Kindness starts simply. An encouraging word. A loving gesture. A tender sentiment sent through the mail. A thoughtful small token. The gift of unhurried time. A rousing pep talk. Simply vowing to speak and act in a way that is gentle and kind is the starting point. Aesop was right: "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." | Karen Ehman | ||
| 5602e43 | I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries. | Anu Garg |