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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.
Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.
Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever.
A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.
The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.
Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.
Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.
Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
The Lord creates us all in different ways and gives us all different passions and different paths.
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.