American - Journalist | 1958 -
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
Timothy Noah
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The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
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Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.
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Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
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Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
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The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
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Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.
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The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
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To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.
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In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
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The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
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