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There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.
All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.
For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.
So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.
I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.
Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.
Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.
Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.
Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.