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People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.
The nastier the e-mail, the more likely I am to respond because they`ll realize there`s a human being on the other side.
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.
[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
The NRA isn't a boogeyman, it's a grass-roots organization made up of 5 million law-abiding Second Amendment supporters.
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns.
One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.
No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
I sometimes think that we underestimate Trump, but that's just my opinion. I always like to tack the other way, I guess.
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.
I want to sing the praises of the U.S. Supreme Court police because they're always fantastic. They always do a good job.
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.