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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (333687)11/12/2009 9:13:56 PM
From: Whitebeard14 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 794345
 
Luck is a synonym for perseverance. Somebody should have told the guy. Also, if he thinks Ayn Rand was just "lucky" to meet Cecile B DeMille, maybe he also clings to some theory of predestination to explain fortune. But that's probably too religiously oriented for him. The guy's Gladwellian. Probably read Outliers. I was waiting for him to say it was all determined by one's socio-economic circumstances.

one of the tricks of success is picking yourself up after you're been run over multiple times. it isn't even brains, although a little intelligence helps. It's "opportunity," the chance to succeed, which is fast disappearing under the far left administration we currently have.

I don't particularly like Rand. I really don't like her attack on religion and middle-class values. I also find her damn near unreadable. But I like this writer even less. New Republic should know better. But then one can always marry the Singer Sewing machine heiress like Marty Peretz did, and then buy a magazine to trumpet your views. That's another way to do it.

Also, anybody who quotes Brookings or Pew is already far left in their ideological orientation. Otherwise they wouldn't go there.

You don't redistribute income to get equality. You increase opportunity. That's how you get a dynamic society.
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