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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.
The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.
Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.
It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying
Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.
In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.
I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.
And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.