People need self-respect, that 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.

Charles Murray
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  1. Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.
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  4. The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.
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