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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

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Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

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People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned — it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned — and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

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Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

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When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

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Charles Murray

Charles Murray

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Born: January 8, 1943 (age 82)

Bio: Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit.

Known for:

The Bell Curve (1994)
Losing Ground (1984)

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