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If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.
Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].
I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
[Hillary] Clinton wants to raise taxes, raise wages and she wants to do things like put caps on drug prices.
Embrace your fear. Imagine what you're most afraid of, touch it and hold it so that you rob it of its power.
Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
He [Donald Trump] hasn`t shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.
I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.
I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.
As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.