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Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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Jonah Jacob Goldberg
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[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.
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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
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Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.
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And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others they just won't admit that's what they're doing.
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Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
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If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
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A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.
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I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
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If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
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Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
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When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.
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