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The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
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No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.
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It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.
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I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.
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Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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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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In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.
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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
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If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.
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People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?
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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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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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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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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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