I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.