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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.
America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Today, the average family has enough financial reserves to keep going for about three weeks. That's it.
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.
Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.
Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer.
You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.
There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.
Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.
I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.
Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net.