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When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?
When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.
The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.
Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'
If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.
Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.
Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.
But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.
I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.
What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.
Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.