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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. George Jean Nathan

Women Sense Of Humor Humor Men Sense Older Cosmetics More More And More Rely Grow

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear. George Kotsiopoulos

Winter Dressing About Having Chic

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams

Fear Mind Medicine Frame Relaxation Ghosts Run Puts Cheerful Reinforced

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. George Matthew Adams

Soul Peace Sports Heart Courage Water Wind Feeling Few Action Gives Blending Well Return Calls Sailing Heart And Soul Quick Itself Very Afford Boat Teaches

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. George Matthew Adams

Man Made Others Thousands Self-Made Up Thing

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. Harold Ross

Editing Same Thing Exactly Writers Same Thing

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. Henry Grunwald

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Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith. Henry Grunwald

God Faith Myself Made Sense Universe Rationally Could No Sense Argue Argued Simply Knew Also Without Same Convinced Believing

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. Horace Greeley

You Will Alive Journalism While Keep

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot. Jill Abramson

Think Once Paper Say Abe About Something He Said His Lot Just Wanted Straight Asked Kept

I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties. Joanna Coles

Best Young Conservatives Gave Liberals Member Parties According Labour Who

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. Jon Meacham

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I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. Jon Meacham

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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. Jon Meacham

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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. Jon Meacham

Politics Generation Hate Cause Word Progressives Our Once About Dirty Cleaner Put Talk Cry Fairer Make Safer Democrats How Quick Fervor America Republicans Them Cutting Regulation Regulations Evangelical Even Now

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. Jon Meacham

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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. Jon Meacham

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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. Jon Meacham

Example Oppose Others Intervention Projects Favor Relief Security Take Put Disaster For Example American Accurately Public Social Them Regulation Cynically Works Social Security Helps

Managing bottom-up change is its own art. Kevin Kelly

Art Change Own Bottom-Up Managing

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution. Kurt Eichenwald

Time Constitution Words Protection Nation Too Lobbyists State Our Considered Must Citizens Absolute Argued Never Clear Mess Protecting Because Items Amendment Interest Many Actions Lives Founding Incomprehensible Second Second Amendment

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership Character Follower Leader Alike Consists Moral Athletic Degrees Rather Both Self-Restraint Intellectual Than Effort Burdens Traits Requires Technique

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