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Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
The SA, that is the - shorthand, those are the storm troopers. Those are the folks who are commanded by Captain Ernst Rohm.
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.
Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.
In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
My Day Clothes are almost worne out...send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.
I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.