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While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
One of the benefits of being a woman is I don't have to put on a black suit. I could do it, but why do it if you don't have to?
Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.