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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
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Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
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Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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