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Quotes by Journalist
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
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"I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care."
Care,
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"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
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"Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."
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"It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam."
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"I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been."
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"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."
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"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."
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"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."
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"It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."
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"Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!"
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"I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
Man,
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"If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf."
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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
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"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."
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"From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle."
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"In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television."
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"Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them."
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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."
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"From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself."
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared."
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"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
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"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
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"I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time."
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"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
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"We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to."
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"The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work."
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"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."
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"And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones."
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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."
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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
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"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"
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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."
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"Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house."
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"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
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"You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards."
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