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Samantha
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”How could it happen? I don’t know anybody who voted for Nixon!” A similarly refined insulation from reality is evident in the attitudes toward religion assumed by many who bear responsibility for informing the national consciousness.
— Mar 25, 2019 03:01PM
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Samantha
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Media attention is likely to skew our perception of the continuing strength of the mainline, since the media assume that “news” is the new and , frequently, bizarre.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:53PM
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Samantha
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The historic enemies of democratic disorderliness, such as Hitler and Stalin, make their most determined assaults not against religious belief as such but against the institutions of religion.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:18PM
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Samantha
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Compromise and forgiveness arise from the acknowledgement that we are imperfect creatures in an imperfect world. Democracy is the product not of a vision of perfection but of the knowledge of imperfection.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:05PM
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Samantha
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Democracy by nature puts a premium on mediocrity.
— Mar 13, 2019 06:36PM
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Samantha
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American founders....assumed that other institutions, such as religion, would be taking care of the value-generating and value-transmitting needs of society.
— Oct 08, 2018 04:28AM
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Samantha
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Today perfectly respectable, indeed distinguished, persons propose in public the doing of what earlier was thought unthinkable.
— Sep 30, 2018 05:51AM
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Samantha
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The legal precedents set in order to remedy racial injustice, however, are now exploited by every person or group in order to establish their claim of immunity from prevailing moral sentiment.
— Sep 29, 2018 04:01PM
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Samantha
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It is a conflict of moralities in which one moral system calls itself secular and insists that the other do likewise as the price of admission to the public arena. That insistence is in fact a demand that the other side capitulate.
— Apr 29, 2018 04:50PM
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Samantha
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. ~ John Adams
— Apr 05, 2018 02:16PM
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Samantha
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It is false consciousness to think that even the most intensive empathy can create a solidarity of identity and experience.
— Apr 05, 2018 05:58AM
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Samantha
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Revolutions, it has been observed, are declared impossible before they happen and inevitable after they happen.
— Feb 18, 2018 12:43PM
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Samantha
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In any society there are the rulers and there are the ruled. In the most fetching evasion of this reality, the rulers insist upon being called public servants.
— Jan 29, 2018 07:50PM
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Samantha
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We should be suspicious of explanations for other people’s beliefs and behavior when those explanations imply that they would believe and behave as we do, if only they were as mature and enlightened as we are.
— Jan 25, 2018 04:32PM
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Samantha
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Historical changes that in retrospect seem major are sometimes worked out over a long period of time by subtle transformations that largely escape the notice of those who were living through them.
— Jan 17, 2018 07:03PM
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Samantha
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Fanaticism is contagious. It tends to evoke a similar response from opponents not ordinarily given to being fanatical.
— Jan 16, 2018 06:07PM
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