The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our … - Oliver DeMille

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Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

Oliver DeMille

The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.

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The U. S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

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Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

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We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

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Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.

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