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The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.
Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.
If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.
Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.
Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.
It's pretty cathartic for me to write a letter to God and tell him what I'm praying for that day or what I'm going through emotionally.
I did grow up in a southern Christian background, and I have friends from all walks of life, but I will never forget from where I came.
One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
Do not read 'Hard Choices' if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world's foreign policy, let alone any juicy gossip.
The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.
I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.
To be honest, I don't really have my own makeup because when I'm not on television or doing a photoshoot or something I barely wear it.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.
Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.