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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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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
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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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The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
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The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
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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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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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Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
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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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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.
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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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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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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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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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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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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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