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Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.
I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.
The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?
Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.
I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.
Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.