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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.
There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.
There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support.
Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.
I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.
So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.
I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.
For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.
Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.