America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

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Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

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If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

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Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

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Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

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The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

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When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

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Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

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Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

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Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

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You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

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Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

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The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

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Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

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Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

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