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There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.
Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.
Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.
I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.
Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
Then I yelled through his door, "It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS.
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.
America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.
It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.
I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him.
I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.
An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.
I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.