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I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?
Republican voters are coalescing behind [Donald] Trump, but many Republican elected officials still say they can't support him.
I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Some day, when I'm done triggering special snow flakes on campus, when I'm tired of all this, I might quite like a little Milo.
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.
My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.
For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.
When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.
When I'm working out and eating healthily, it's easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.
Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet gets in the way.
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
When Oliver Stone and Woody Allen came forward to express sympathy for Mr. Weinstein, everybody rolled their eyes at them, too.
My favorite bad thing about 'Three Billboards' is its ambition to play around with America's ideological and geographical toys.
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.