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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

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Christopher Lasch

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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