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Pecksniffian |pekˈsnifēən| -
Of or pertaining to Pecksniffery; unctuously hypocritical; sanctimonious.

Ex. George Will, Our Puritanical Progressives

Progressivism’s itch to perfect people by perfecting the social environment can produce an interesting phenomenon – the Pecksniffian progressive.

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Kevin Smith added this on 12/5/2010 at 1:04 pm
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Once you have established the premise that hateful ideas must be dismissed without further thought or discussion, immense power accrues to whoever gets to classify ideas as “hateful.”

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Kevin Smith added this on 8/29/2010 at 1:15 pm
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There is no education in the second kick of a mule.

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Kevin Smith added this on 8/17/2010 at 9:13 am
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It was also around this time at through a dexterous sleight of hand, Progressivism came to be renamed “liberalism.” In the past, liberalism had referred to political and economic liberty as understood by Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith. For them, the ultimate desideratum was maximum individual freedom under the benign protection of a minimalist state. The progressives, led by Dewey, subtly changed the meaning of this term, importing the Prussian vision of liberalism as the alleviation of material and educational poverty, and liberation from old dogmas and old faiths. For progressives liberty no longer meant freedom from tyranny, but freedom from want, freedom to be a “constructive” citizen, the Rousseauian and Hegelian “freedom” of living in accord with the state and the general will.

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from , p. 221 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 8/14/2010 at 5:42 pm
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The numbers do not add up and cannot be made to do so.

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from (during his keynote address at the Cato Institute for the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty) [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/16/2010 at 1:39 am
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A little sleep,
a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

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from (Proverbs 24:33) [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/13/2010 at 8:39 am
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Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 3:03 pm
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Poets are commonly spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 3:00 pm
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Oddities do not strike odd people.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:59 pm
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If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

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from , p. 13 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:57 pm
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