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You have to pursue things of value. If you do it with other people cooperatively and competitively, then you are going to produce differential outcome because people will be differently good at it

Between 2000 and 2012 the rate of absolute poverty in the world fell by half. It was the fastest period of economic development in human history

The distribution of the idea of individual sovereignty and property rights and free market economies out into the non-western world is making the non-western world rich really really really fast

No matter what you are acting out some people are way better at it than others. Doesn't matter if it's basketball or hockey or plumbing or law it doesn't matter. As soon as there is something valuable and you are doing it collectively there is a hierarchy

I certainly believe that there is space and necessity for a constant dialogue between the left and the right

Equality of outcome is an absolutely deadly doctrine.
Equity doctrine is at the top of the list of radical left mistakes

If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

I do believe that especially for the radical leftist types the whole notion of free speech among individuals is not only anathema but also something that is not possible within their framework of reference

You think but you can only remember so much. You have to write it down because then you can remember way more

Whatever they are, ignorant superstition is not a right category

Aim at heaven!
Start at home!
Tell the truth!
Let's see what the hell happens

We are not going to run out of potential

There is more to you than you think, there is more than enough potential to go around. There is definite suffering and malevolence in the world. We could fix it. You haven't got anything better to do

Maybe all you have is this little rat hole of a room in some run-down place in the world. Fix it up! There is more there than you think. See what happens if you fix it up. And you'll fix yourself up simultaneously because you have to get disciplined in order to fix up the room. Then you have a fixed-up room and you will be a more fixed-up person. All hell will break loose as a consequence of that

Everything around you is full of potential. Everything! Maybe more potential than you could ever possibly utilize

It's not that easy to cleanup your room. You want your room to be set up so that when you walk in there it tells you to be better than you generally are. It's organized, it has got direction, everything is in its place. You try to do that in your chaotic household

When you do something that you should not do, it's worse than you think and when you do something that you should do, it's better than you think

Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better.
Do it!

If you are not everything you could be more people will die, more people will suffer, more evil will be unconstrained, more tyranny will reign, more chaos will remain...

The world is full of darkness. Each of us have a little bit of light. If we release that light, if we shine properly... The world is a lesser place if you don't reveal from within yourself what you have to reveal

The thing that sustains people through life really is the lifting of a worthwhile burden. We are evolved to be useful to the people around us

You need to organize your family with a certain amount of discipline and a certain amount of structure so that you get to do what you want, so that you are happy to have your kids around, so that you won't take revenge on them

You want to lay your life out so that it's providing you what you need to not be bitter and to work for your best interests and for the interests of everyone else

You are much more inclined to let other people live their lives if you are living your life in a satisfactory manner. That's exactly it