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  • 12 Gore Vidal Quotes to Prepare You for Election Season

    12 Gore Vidal Quotes to Prepare You for Election Season0

    From the prolific writer (1925-2012) and perceptive critic of American politics:   1. “By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.”    2. “Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

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  • This 1848 Essay Perfectly Portrays the 2016 Election

    This 1848 Essay Perfectly Portrays the 2016 Election0

    A couple of days ago Joe Biden announced that he wouldn’t join the roughly 20 candidates running for president in 2016. Regardless of what one thinks of his politics, the Vice President is to be commended. It seems he has resisted the urge and ambition to join the popularity contest and the power and wealth

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  • Really, Mr. President?

    Really, Mr. President?0

    Yesterday, Minneapolis Public Schools proudly shared a letter of congratulations from President Obama. Here’s the post:  Here’s the letter:  Assuming the letter is real, the President really ought to have had his team check out the school district before sending a letter of congratulations to the interim superintendent. We certainly agree that “Our Nation’s future

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  • Many Women Distancing Themselves from Feminists

    Many Women Distancing Themselves from Feminists0

    • October 23, 2015

    Emily Hill, writing for the British magazine The Spectator, says that it’s time for feminists to recognize the white flags. As the title of her article reads, “Feminism is over, the battle is won. It’s time to move on.”  Today, as Hill points out, girls are doing better in school, more women attend university than

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  • Makers vs. Takers

    Makers vs. Takers0

    A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call

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  • Coming Clean: My 5 Suggestions for Improving the Education System

    Coming Clean: My 5 Suggestions for Improving the Education System0

    At Intellectual Takeout, we often criticize today’s American education system. In reaction, some in our audience make the blanket accusation that we are “against public education.” Others accuse us of merely “cursing the darkness” rather than “lighting a candle,” and wonder what we would suggest to improve things.    Are we against public education? If

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  • 9 Timeless Quotes from Dostoevsky

    9 Timeless Quotes from Dostoevsky0

    1. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”     2. “The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”     3. “If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force

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  • Viktor Frankl on Finding Meaning in Suffering

    Viktor Frankl on Finding Meaning in Suffering0

    We all suffer. For some it will be a short duration. For others, we are trapped in a prison, figurative or literal, for the duration. Viktor Frankl was one of those trapped in a literal prison, a hell, surviving four different concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His story in Man’s Search for Meaning is incredible

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  • These John Paul II Quotes will Cause a Stir

    These John Paul II Quotes will Cause a Stir0

    You may not know it, but Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) was canonized last year by the Catholic Church. As a saint, he now has a feast day, which is today, October 22. Known for many things, the Pope played an important role battling it out with the Evil Empire, thereby weakening the Soviet Union

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