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In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.
France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself
The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.
Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.
The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
'The Sun' had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.