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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
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Journalist
Women
Ideas
Mean
Profound
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Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.
Richard Engel
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Journalist
New York
Cost
Guy
United States
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The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
Richard Harding Davis
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Journalist
Doors
Gentleman
Headquarters
Pride
Son
Treats
Sergeant
Always Me I Am
Obey
Orders
Regularly
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Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Rob Sheffield
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Journalist
Baseball
Cubs
Opening
Opening Day
Pitcher
President
Race
Walks
Ball
Eliminated
Era
Mathematically
Pennant
Royals
Throws
Traditions
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Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.
Robert Caro
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Journalist
Journalism
Political
Reason
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Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.
Robert Smythe Hichens
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Journalist
Imagination
Men
May
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I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.
Rose George
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Journalist
Hate
Menopause
Special
Coming
Cure
Extra
Second
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
Sam Donaldson
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Journalist
Damn
Military
Please
School
Suits You
Losers
Suit
Winners
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Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
Sarah Lacy
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Journalist
Brutal
Glare
Higher
Media
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Spotlight
Yankees
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
City
Valley
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I'm worried about people who say Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving.
Seymour Hersh
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Journalist
Believe
Lying
People
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One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'
Shane Smith
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Journalist
Canada
Okay
Shocking
Cultural
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His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.
Steig Larsson
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Journalist
Attitude
Eye
Goes On
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under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
Suzanne La Follette
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Journalist
Opportunity
Work
Men
Privilege
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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Journalist
Education
Dark
Mirrors
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
Sydney J. Harris
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Journalist
Men
Children
Philosophy
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Approach
Conservatism
Crisis
Dislike
Financial
Financial Crisis
Party
President
Touch
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Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Chicago
Daring
Praise
Selling
Mr
Falling
Innovations
Journals
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Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
Timothy Noah
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Journalist
Leadership
Lobbyists
Permanent
Considered
Beau
Confines
Congressional
Washington
Ford
Ideal
Journalists
Narrow
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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
Timothy Noah
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Journalist
Respect
Climate Change
Consumption
Environment
Oil
Change Respect World
Change World Climate
Run
Dangers
Wrong
Global
Global Environment
Quickly
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I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure.
Tom Bissell
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Journalist
Structure
Derives
Short Stories
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Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
Walt Mossberg
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Journalist
Hardware
Permission
Software
Consumer
Maker
Developer
Pipes
Provider
Services
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The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together.
Wayne Besen
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Journalist
Gay
Moving
Organization
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The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
William Godwin
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Journalist
Fervor
Italian
Sincerity
Stranger
Surprising
Welfare
Natives
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I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.
William Godwin
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Journalist
Goodness
Increase
Pursue
Usefulness
Object
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley
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Journalist
Sympathy
Father
Miners
Mother
News
Remember
Said
Camp
Instinctive
Listened
Strike
Worked
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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Imagination
Fiction
Romance
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Food
Body
Cooking
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Art
Father
Names
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So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
Anna Louise Strong
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Journalist
Brother
Chinese
Convinced
Visa
World
Authorities
Refused
Scott
Similarly
Tour
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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
Annalee Newitz
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Journalist
Critics
Epic
Fantasy
Great Leader
Guilt
Native
Alien
Avatar
Version
Dances
Latest
Wolves
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Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.
Anne Applebaum
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Journalist
Effort
Thinking
Wings
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Birtherism surely increased Americans' distrust of politics, though in ways that are hard to pin down. By contrast, when anti-vaxxers persuade parents not to vaccinate children, the result can be sickness and even death.
Anne Applebaum
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Journalist
Contrast
Distrust
Sickness
Persuade
Pin
Surely
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
Barton Gellman
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Journalist
Computers
Software
Volume
Operation
Pc
Phantom
Runs
Sales
Signed
Thousands
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Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
Bill Dedman
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Journalist
California
Coastline
Damage
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Power Plants
Zone
Anticipating
Earthquake
Low
Plants
Surprisingly
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward
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Journalist
Air
Authenticity
Believe
Believer
First Amendment
Questioning
Silent
Suggestions
Views
Believe Me I Believe
Amendment
Believe I Believe Me
Coup
Washington
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Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no way I'm going to vote for a guy who is just totally uninformed, un-presidential as Donald Trump is.
Bret Stephens
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Journalist
Guy
Ideas
Office
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Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
Bret Stephens
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Journalist
Heroic
Imprisonment
Mccain
Refusal
Release
Torture
Vietnam
Celebrated
North Vietnam
Surely
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When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.
Carl Hiaasen
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Journalist
Girl
Fun
Writing
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I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.
Charles M. Blow
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Journalist
Concepts
Masculinity
Sexuality
Male
Culture Black People
Help People
Illuminate
Narrow
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You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?
David Grann
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Journalist
Bottom
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
Compel
Element
Instinctual
Meaning
Seize
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The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
David Grann
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Journalist
Brutal
Contact
Native
Oklahoma
Wealth
Images
Native Americans
Whites
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If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
David Ignatius
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Journalist
Incentives
Long Term
Managers
Net Worth
Tied
Game World Better
Net
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How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.
Donald Murray
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Journalist
Amusement
Tasks
Writing
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The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.
Edward R. Murrow
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Journalist
Country
Understanding
Voice
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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
Edward R. Murrow
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Journalist
Order
Progress
Singing
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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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Journalist
Bible
Cease
Repentance
Sin
Approve
Immediate
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My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.
Erik Larson
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Journalist
Emerges
Finishes
He Or She
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In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
Ernie Pyle
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Journalist
Despair
Excitement
Expression
Eye
Hatred
Simple
Pass
Tonic
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria
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Journalist
Business
Creating
Important Work
Ipads
Stories
Work Business World
Although
Content
Business Model
Figuring
Model
Ipad
Newsweek
Rather
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
Frank Crowninshield
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Journalist
Discovery
Names
Reading
Sauce
French
Madame
Mixed
Yearn
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