Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
~ Joseph Heller
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The only wisdom I think I’ve attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people’s ideology and other people’s arguments.
~ Joseph Heller
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The cultivation — even celebration — of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
~ George Will
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will
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A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
~ George Will
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Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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