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As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted here.
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.
I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.
People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.
Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.
Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.
I get calls, emails and get asked in the grocery store when I'm not looking that great... 'I love your hair. Where do you get it done?'
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.
Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.
I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.
I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.
The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.
It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.
As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.