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When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.
I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there
Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.