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If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.
I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here.
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
I mean, [tweeting] just - it makes you wonder about whatever else Donald trump is doing. It undermines much more than just a single tweet.
T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in.
[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.
If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.
Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.