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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. Grantland Rice

You Sports Will Foe About More Him Match Dealing Years Than Eighteen Holes Across Teach Your Play Desk

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker. Gretchen Carlson

Women Sometimes Seen Sexual About Troublemaker Come Harassment Forward

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. Harry Reasoner

Mom Statistics Crust Pie Baseball Apple Apple Pie

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.' Helen Thomas

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen

Time Trouble Pain Born-Again Around Bigger Even Second Christians

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. Hunter S. Thompson

Nature Experience Big Sail Ocean White Speed Enough Seconds See About Feel Over Knot Tie Yacht Am Still Than Person Just Nostalgia Anything Mean Racing Certain Sea Less

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Hunter S. Thompson

Man Nothing More Than Irresponsible Ether Depths Helpless Binge

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. Ira Glass

You Yourself People Too Much Thinking Too Other Tool Dramatic Machine Characters Logic About Emotion Empathize Empathy Powerful Over Powerful Tool Without Contrast Gets Situations Staged Story Much Really Reason Sequence Moments Imagining

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country. Jane Velez-Mitchell

Angry Family Strange People Values Country Fighting Group Our Soldiers Stripped Costumes Like Look Looks Protest Does Tradition Died Family Values Fancy Bare Who Funerals

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological. Janine di Giovanni

You Wonderful Giving Sense Baby Birth Addiction Earth Know Most Another Wonderful Thing Being After Pregnant Being Pregnant Thing Biological Need

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. Jemima Khan

Experience Key Being Busy Busy Being Working Working Hard Hard

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth. Jeremy Clarkson

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it. Jim Lehrer

Democracy People Care Long Way Feel Particular Particular Way How Doing dont Care Get Just Want Information Informed Electorate Lucky

In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him. John Dickerson

Other Way Obama John John McCain Wright He Forbid Him Opponent Issue His Referred Sneaky Pastor Senator Any Any Other Way Staff McCain Former Against Barack Race Use Using Believed Ad Raising

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? John Gunther

You Man Embarrass Tell He Him Texas Asking Why

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. John Lanchester

Government Democracy People Kind Tend Get Deserve

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. John Stossel

Innovation People World Prosperity Own Powers Self-Interest Discovery Fuel Acting

A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives. Jose Antonio Vargas

Broken Immigration System Families Means Lives

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. Kate Adie

Myself Freedom Liberty Care Freedom Of Speech Calm Down Telling About Take Excited Journalism Fairness Calm Down Still Lot Get Interest Less Keep Expression Things Speech

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry. Kate Reardon

Jewelry Favourite Wardrobe Thing

It's a man's world, and you men can have it. Katherine Anne Porter

You Man World Men

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