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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.
I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.
He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
[Donald] Trump`s business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
Rehabs have become a big business in this country. There are good ones and not-good ones, just like anything else.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.
No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?
Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.