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All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria.
I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.
Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.
To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.
Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.
The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.
I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.
Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.
I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.
There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.