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"Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation."
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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."

"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."

"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."

"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."

"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."

"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."

"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."

"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."

"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."
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"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."


"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."


"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media."


"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming."


"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went."


"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."


"My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you."
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