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A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.
There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.
You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.
There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication
Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.
The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.
At the end of the day girls want jeans that will make them feel confident and sexy, and high-waisted jeans tend to do that.
The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.