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Solomon may have been right when he mused “there’s nothing new under the sun.” That obstacle to originality barely bothers us for eight months each year, explaining why the Pacific Northwest registers more patents per capita than any other region in the world.

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Enrollment quotas at schools make headlines. But racial distinctions overshadow all the other quotas an admissions employee must try to fill: an even mix of men and women, enough flute players for the band, a good spread of geographic roots, the right socioeconomic milieu.

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The man makes $1.55 million a year. Does his family need more than that? It’s clear he “decided to listen” to find out how much money was on the table. That cracks the code for me

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When moral purity becomes a measure of social stature, there’s always risk of being one-upped. We all want to be good, but don’t we also fear we’ll never be good enough?

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If Coburg votes for sewers, they will be voting to make room for more and other future Coburg residents. That faith in the future is what drives civilization forward — regular people trying to make things just a little bit better.

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If the Supreme Court won’t allow money to have less of a voice, how about lifting the 1911 law and restoring how much voice the Constitution afforded each vote?

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Choices we make today affect choices we’ll have tomorrow. But it’s no less true that expectations we have for tomorrow affect choices we make today.

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The past becomes present again, and we’re better for it. We see ourselves in context of who we were and where we came from. We needn’t open the gift. The gift opens us.

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Our mothers meant well when they warned us not to trust strangers, but true hospitality requires that we forget that lesson, or temper it with courage. If we really want diversity, strangers can help us more than our friends. But we don’t know any strangers. All we know is not to trust them.

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At every juncture, we give citizens more information as the best way to give them control over their government and freedom in their lives. No one contemplated what might happen if people were given too much information.

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