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Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.
It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.
If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.