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You`ve got David Petraeus who, yes, did, you know, something for which he pleaded guilty.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been getting a lot of questions about his wife .
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.
Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.
Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.
Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
I've got a buddy who will not watch me because he'll say 'I don't know who that dude is.'
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
'Jeopardy!' contestant Ken Jennings' winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.
I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.
We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.