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Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I think 'Slate''s editorial staff understands the intersection of journalism and technology better than any other.
When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.
No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.
If you have even a smidgen of doubt that you'll be able to stay away from racking up additional debt, don't do it.
Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported.
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.
How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.
Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.
I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.
Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.
Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
The white working class desires safety for their families, but Islam brings everything but safety. Look at Europe!
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.