It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

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It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

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Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

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ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

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