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The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.
The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.
People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
I do not chase silly drama for the sake of storylines, though it sometimes seems to find me.
I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.