Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
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To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
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All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
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Normal is...spending all day in a sick building with windows that don't open and a thermostat that is seasonally dysfunctional in order to make the environment consistently comfy and user-friendly for the mainframe computer.
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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The appeals court decision last year turned on its head the traditional belief that a university is a 'marketplace of ideas' where speech from all sides is not only tolerated, but encouraged. We hoped that the Supreme Court would step in to reaffirm that important principle.
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.
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Few great men could pass Personnel.
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I keep reading between the lies.
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This is the first time the Supreme Court has upheld a judgment of parentage between a same-sex couple,
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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
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Few great men could pass personal.
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People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
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David Kessler: Are you really dead, Jack? Jack Goodman: What do you think?
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination
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