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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.
At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.
FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year
Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.
You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.
If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.