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I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.
Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.
We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.
If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.
It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.
I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.