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The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
The relief of 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami' is that it seeks to square the person with the provocateuse.
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
I never did, and I never will, thank any man for altering any one word of my compositions without my privity.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.
Just shouting about 'facts' will get you nowhere with those who no longer trust the sources that produce them.
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
The Harding/Kerrigan saga was one of the first feeding-frenzy stories that would forever change news coverage.
Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.