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Charles Murray _ By the People: Rebuilding
All systematic civil disobedience should involve acts that are malum prohibitum: illegal because the state says so, not because they are bad in themselves.
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Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
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Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of
Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.
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Charles Murray _ By the People: Rebuilding
The twin propositions of this book are that we are at the end of the American project as the founders intended it, but that opportunities are opening for preserving the best qualities of the American project in a new incarnation.
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Charles Murray _ By the People: Rebuilding
Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This
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Charles Murray _ American Exceptionalism: An
when the country began, the Founders were unanimously of the opinion that their creation could work in practice only because of qualities that already existed in the American people-their honesty, industriousness, religiosity, and morality, to name four that all of the Founders discussed in one way or another.5
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Charles Murray _ American Exceptionalism: An
For a discussion of the Founders' view that a successful republic required a high level of virtue in the people, see Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2012 {New York: Crown Forum, 2012}, chap. 6. 6
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Charles Murray _ Real Education: Four Simple
Since they are in fact academically gifted, it is fine to tell them that. Trying to hide their academic ability from them would be futile anyway. But they must also be told explicitly, forcefully, and repeatedly that their intellectual talent is a gift that they have done nothing to deserve. They are not superior human beings, but very, very lucky ones. They should feel humbled by their good luck.
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Charles Murray _ By the People: Rebuilding
the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world.… The supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. -ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America
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Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of
There is more to life than work, and a life without ample space for family and friends is incomplete. But this much should not be controversial: Vocation-one's calling in life-plays a large role in defining the meaning of that life. For some, the nurturing of children is the vocation. For some, an avocation or a cause can become an all-absorbing source of satisfaction, with the job a means of paying the bills and nothing more. But for many others, vocation takes the form of the work one does for a living. Working hard, seeking to get ahead, and striving to excel at one's craft are not only quintessential features of traditional American culture but also some of its best features. Industriousness is a resource for living a fulfilling human life instead of a life that is merely entertaining.
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Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of
family structure that produces the best outcomes for children, on average, are two biological parents who remain married. Divorced parents produce the next-best outcomes. Whether the parents remarry or remain single while the children are growing up makes little difference. Never-married women produce the worst outcomes. All of these statements apply after controlling for the family's socioeconomic status.14 I know of no other set of important findings that are as broadly accepted by social scientists who follow the technical literature, liberal as well as conservative, and yet are so resolutely ignored by network news programs, editorial writers for the major newspapers, and politicians of both major political parties. In
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Charles Murray _ The Curmudgeon's Guide to
If I'm wrong, and you find yourself in an organization where sucking up is in fact a good way to get ahead, look for a new job. It's not a quality organization after all, no matter how glittering its public reputation may be. Life is too short to work there.
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