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Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. George Will

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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong. H. G. Bissinger

Rare Unnecessary Wrong Very Committing

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. Helen Thomas

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson

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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. Judd Rose

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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life. Lincoln Steffens

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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. Lincoln Steffens

Art Border Civilization Along Like Course Flowers

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect. Maria Shriver

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My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. Maria Shriver

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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us. Maria Shriver

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices. Mariella Frostrup

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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. Molly Ivins

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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs

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Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else. Paul Harvey

You Else Something Something Else Like

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Theodore White

Today Politics Democracy Money Pollution Flood

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo. Thomas Friedman

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe

Loneliness Vanity Surest Cure

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. Tom Wolfe

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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. Walter Cronkite

Enough Our Selecting Leaders Perform Well Well Enough Educated Act Necessary

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. Walter Lippmann

World Picture Our Head Exists Experienced Really Belief

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements. William Lloyd Garrison

Liberty Devotion Perish Because Nations Requirements Disregard

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear. Aaron Brown

Truth No-One Hear Want Wants

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