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I want to know people I can respect, and I want to know people with whom I agree. Ultimately, the first matters more to me than the second. If I agree with people but cannot respect them -- then who cares? If I can respect them, then agreement is possible -- and, even if it isn't, they probably gave me something.

"Nuclear arms control is back in style. We're told that the fewer nuclear arms there are in the world, the safer we will be. This assertion makes no reference whatsoever to the fact of in WHOSE possession those nuclear arms are. To suggest that it's the total quantity of nuclear arms on earth that matters more than in WHOSE possession those weapons ( Read more... )

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN

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"...for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -Winston Churchil

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"The President says he doesn't want a government takeover of medicine; he just wants government to be able to "compete" with the private sector. Now think about this for a minute. Imagine two local hardware stores competing with one another for your business. Hardware store #1 is just like any other hardware store. It attempts to make a profit -- ( Read more... )