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“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/16997889.
Crown Forum (2012); ISBN10: 0307453421; ISBN13: 9780307453426.

“You’re out of touch with reality in that regard.”

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In response to "I believe that given the opportunity, most people could do most anything." from interviewer Deborah Solomon.
Questions for Charles Murray: Head of the Class http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21wwln-Q4-t.html, New York Times Magazine, September 19, 2008.

“The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.”

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Regarding the No Child Left Behind Act.
The Age of Educational Romanticism http://www.aei.org/article/27962, The New Criterion, Thursday, May 1, 2008.