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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
Progress
Society
Excuse
Terrible
Done
Just
Them
Really
Requires
Things
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
Stuart Scott
You
Cancer
Lose
Live
Beat
Does
How
Die
Which
Mean
Manner
Why
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Susan Estrich
Time
Gay
Evil
Lesbian
Every
Think
Suicide
Every Time
Teens
Evils
High
About
Someone
Rates
True
Supposed
Making
Hear
Comments
Ignorant
Among
Homosexuality
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sydney J. Harris
Enemy
Progress
Greatest
False
Stagnation
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
Art
Obey
Made
Living
Consists
Must
Knowing
Impulses
Which
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
Government
Democracy
Ought
System
Only
Powers
Persists
Whether
Asking
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
Tom Brokaw
Depression
Great
Generation
First
Everything
Great Depression
Jobs
Shared
Greatest
Greatest Generation
Clothing
Formed
Meals
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.
Tom Brokaw
Hope
Me
Class
Strong
Political
Country
Differences
Gone
Critical
Critical Mass
Would
About
Seem
Civility
Mass
Importance
Most
Call
Does
Dialogue
Left
Begin
Political Spectrum
Across
Professional
Believes
Right
Spectrum
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
Tom Wolfe
Wait
First
Walks
Situation
Bit
Backward
See
Look
Then
Milieu
Who
Novels
I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.
Tom Wolfe
Work
Me
Man
Try
Situation
Everybody
Mars
More
Arrive
Discovered
Fit
Effective
Than
Any
Maybe
Much
Now
I don't care what you label me or how many times you come for me. I am fearless, and I'm just getting started.
Tomi Lahren
Me
You
Care
Fearless
Come
How
Am
How Many Times
Label
Times
dont Care
Getting
Just
Getting Started
Many
Started
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
Walt Mossberg
Myself
New Things
See
Retirement
New
Another
Version
Just
Things
Chance
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
Walter Cronkite
News
Failure
Fight
Desperate
Gone
Programmes
Our
Television
System
Entertain
Ratings
Attempt
Democratic
Because
Inform
Much
Evening
Evening News
Challenged
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
Walter Cronkite
Vote
Party
Individual
Never
Voted
Party Line
Issues
Line
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Think
Alike
No-One
Very
Where
Much
Thinks
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
Best
Enemy
Way
Best Way
Never
Along
Friend
Forget
Get
Forgive
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Reality
Become
Approaches
Fine
Costs
Idealism
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison
People
Every
Pedestal
Enough
Statue
Hasten
Resurrection
Leap
Dead
Make
Apathy
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan
Jokes
Way
Puns
Write
Environment
Talk
Up
Grew
Sarcasm
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
Man
Fall
Own
Over
Make
His
Tumble
Bluff
Hardest
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce
Game
Man
Conviction
Enjoy
Table
Beating
He
Comfortable
Insurance
Permitted
Modern
Which
Ingenious
Who
Keeps
Player
Chance
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce
Beautiful
Example
Poison
Striking
Identity
Deadly
Italian
Essential
Lady
English
Tongues
Two
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education
Wise
Understanding
Foolish
Lack
Which
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
Technology
Invention
Devil
Distance
Telephone
Some
Disagreeable
Advantages
Making
His
Person
Which
Keep
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce
Book
Too
Covers
Apart
Far
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
Happiness
Life
You
Strikes
More
How
Than
Depends
Happens
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