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To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.
Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.
[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.
If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.
The decision on how philanthropic money is spent is made on the whims and personal interests of the wealthy, rather than what is best.
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.
Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming up.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.
When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.
Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.
[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.
No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.