Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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