#con

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#behavior #biological #consequences #crime #differences

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#been #canada #countries #economic #educational

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#argue #concept #race #subjective

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#give #junket #machine #member #secretary

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #cheaper #consider #hardly #lawful

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #condition #easily #effort #our

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

#control #devoted #education #impudence #itself

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #condition #education #first #meaningful

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may