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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

William Bennett

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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
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