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Charles Murray
American Scientist
Born: Jan 8, 1943
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To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer. Charles Murray
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It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework. Charles Murray
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I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime. Charles Murray
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I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that a majority would be pro-choice, but, the libertarian position is to protect the rights of individuals against the use of force and fraud. Charles Murray
You Rights Abortion Think Took Libertarian Libertarians Fraud Would Would-Be Individuals Protect Majority Force Pro-Choice Maybe Poll Against Might Use Position
As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies. Charles Murray
Savage Good Will First Tribes Classes More Remind Around Does Been Western Yes Tattoos Common Then Lowest Agree Among Millennia Societies Recently
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky. Charles Murray
Problem Revolution Think Has-Been Some Writers Masculine Knots Tied Around Feminine Feminist Been Male Singular Get Which Using Default
There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys. Charles Murray
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When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working. Charles Murray
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I hate reading reviews. Charles Murray
Hate Reading Reviews
You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager. Charles Murray
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Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed. Charles Murray
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If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five. Charles Murray
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We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives. Charles Murray
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Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity. Charles Murray
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Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families. Charles Murray
You Women Politicians Think Too Worse Say Unmarried Though Born About Divorce Development Intact Families Than Frightened Any Just Children Problematic Far Fare Measure Who Media Raised
There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents. Charles Murray
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