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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

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Dennis Prager
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 2
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It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.
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Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.
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To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
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When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.
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Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . .
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Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.
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I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
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God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
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Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
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To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.
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Big government squashes the human spirit
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It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards
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Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one
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To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
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There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil
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