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The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.
Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.
People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.
Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.
You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.
Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.
To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.
In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.
I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
In a weird way, I'm a good target for the government, because I can push back.
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.