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Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
Quotes By Jonathan Sacks
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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures....
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We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely...
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Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a...
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Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth success accolades or fame - is...
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be...
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Stabilizing the euro is one thing healing the culture that surrounds it is...
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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution...
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If you want a free society teach your children what oppression tastes like....
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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust science no longer holds its pristine place...
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Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is not what ought...
Quotes About Science
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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are...
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We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics...
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The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined...
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the...
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized...
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason...
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I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always...
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If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat there is no consensus of...