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Quotes by Journalist
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
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"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
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"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."
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"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns."
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"Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor."
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"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship."
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"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
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"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
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"The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you."
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"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist."
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"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly."
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"Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists."
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"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth"."
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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
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"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
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"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China."
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"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
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"Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate."
Will,
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"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."
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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."
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"I'm covering the worst president in American history."
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"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
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"People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming."
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"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."
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"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,
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"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."
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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."
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"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
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