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 People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.\\ People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- Christopher Hitchens</wrap>\\ +   <wrap attribution>-- Christopher Hitchens</wrap>\\ 
-<wrap quote-comment>This is probably the only thing Christopher Hitchens ever said that I would agree with.</wrap>+   <wrap quote-comment>This is probably the only thing Christopher Hitchens ever said that I would agree with.</wrap> 
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 +Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing but discrimination.\\ 
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 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.\\ People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- Dale Carnegie</wrap>+   <wrap attribution>-- Dale Carnegie</wrap>
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 There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.\\ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- George Bernard Shaw</wrap>+   <wrap attribution>-- George Bernard Shaw</wrap>
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 [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of **subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.**\\ [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of **subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.**\\
 <wrap attribution>-- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States</wrap> <wrap attribution>-- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States</wrap>
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-Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing but discrimination.\\ 
-<wrap attribution>-- me</wrap> 
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