What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized … - Thomas Sowell

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The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

Thomas Sowell

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

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Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

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William Lane Craig

But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel. God will judge the unreached on the basis of their response to His self-revelation in nature and conscience. The Bible says that from the created order alone, all persons can know that a Creator God exists and that God has implanted His moral law in the hearts of all persons so that they are held morally accountable to God (Rom. 1. 20; 2. 14-15). The Bible promises salvation to anyone who responds affirmatively to this self-revelation of God

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Johannes Tauler

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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John Gierach

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

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We put the fun back into dysfunctional

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