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Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.
Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood
It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit
Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.
I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
I know that life, I’ve done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.
Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn`t violate the Constitution.
The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."
I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.