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To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream.
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.
I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
New Zealand's economy may be more immune... from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it's not that immune.
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.