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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.
Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.
I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
My stylist chose the white gloves and I think she did a spectacular job....I couldn't believe the stir my gloves were making at the dinner.
We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?
Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.
Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really admire.
If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.
At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'
[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.
Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.
I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.
Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.
Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.
As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.
Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.