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“Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.”
“Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.”
“The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is America's most conservative drink.”
“Ronald Reagan was very successful.”
“Marriage is not for everyone.”
“Civil society begins with the family.”
“A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.”
“Criticism does not constitute violence.”
“Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.”
“Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.”
“Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.”
“Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.”
“American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.”
“The Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but it can't have both.”
“Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.”
“Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.”
“No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.”
“President Trump's greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character.”
“For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.”
“Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.”