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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.
Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.
Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.
One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'
Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.
It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let anyone take risks.
For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.
This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.
In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.
God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
[Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so.
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.
Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.
Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.
White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.
Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.
My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.