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To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.
Natalie Morales
Great
Me
Energy
Release
Running
Also
Builder
Gets
Going
Therapy
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
Government
Property
People
Party
Earn
Give
Purpose
Take
Democratic
Principal
Democratic Party
Force
Use
Who
Away
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Nicholas Kristof
Problems
Feeling
Those
Bottom
Inequality
Leaving
Causes
Disenfranchised
Creating
Societies
Marginalized
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas Kristof
Education
Girl
Reading
Society
Books
Extremism
Threat
More
Drones
Firing
Powerful
Missiles
Force
Terrified
Because
Reading Books
Greatest
Greatest Threat
Transform
Fanatics
Why
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
Nick Tosches
Life
Writing
Life Is A
Everything
Sincerity
Racket
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
War
Man
Courage
Humanity
Intelligence
Beauty
Cowardice
Nothing
Way
Foolishness
Him
Does
Reveals
Ugliness
Enigma
Alas
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci
Truth
Lie
Sometimes
Word
Hypocrisy
Positions
Side
Our
Weakness
Must
Born
Stays
Objectivity
Only
Fact
Take
Does
West
Exist
Sir
Middle
So-Called
Sustained
Cannot
Which
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Pauline Phillips
Fight
People
Fire
End
Up
Ashes
Who
Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
Penny Junor
Back
Everything
Adulthood
Childhood
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill
Beautiful
Morning
Song
Bird
Sun
Rising
Misty
Meaning
Meaning Of
Ask
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
Pete Hamill
Work
Me
Hero
Heroes
Doctors
Difficult
Nurses
Kind
More
Doing
Than
Infinitely
Flamboyant
Often
Teachers
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
Phyllis George
History
Money
Sense
Our
Ancestors
Ourselves
Out
Give
Feel
Make
Crafts
Them
Us
Create
Rooted
Used
Connect
Fun
Express
Now
Belonging
Necessity
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Regina Brett
Futile
Chocolate
Resistance
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Regina Brett
Life
Death
Me
Hate
People
Comforting
Some People
Every
Birth
Our
Find
Some
Dash
Remind
Between
Reminds
End
Hit
Place
Them
Pause
Us
Eulogy
Deepen
Tombstone
Button
Funerals
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
Regina Brett
Relationship
You
Secret
Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
Regina Brett
Life
Time
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Ugly
Cancer
Clothes
Living
Every
Saving
Philosophy
Boring
Occasion
Get
Stop
Taught
Movies
Special
Fullest
Special Occasion
Wasted
Wasted Time
Living Life
Things
Start
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
Richard Cohen
Grace
Incompetence
Saving
Saving Grace
Chaotic
Menace
Both
His
Trump
Ignorant
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis
Good
Writing
Old
Secret
Way
Say
Good Writing
New
New Thing
New Way
The Secret Of
Old Thing
Thing
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'
Roger Rosenblatt
God
Faith
Good
Me
You
Luck
Believe
Good Luck
Would
Would-Be
Spinning
Comprehensible
Seems
Take
Most
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Said
Going
Then
Us
Who
Set
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
Too Much
Face
Argument
Important
Too
Side
Hatch
He
Over
Most
Most Important Thing
Without
Opponent
Important Thing
Leave
Loss
Escape
Gracefully
Being
The Most Important
Much
Next
Your
Apparent
Swing
Right
Thing
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Sydney J. Harris
Time
Enemies
Other
Over
Come
Period
Well
Lovers
Resemble
Each
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
You
Worth
Think
Project
Worth It
Inside
About
Write
No-One
Reads
Really
Even
Reception
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
History
Politicians
Tool
Intentions
Justify
Used
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Tom Wolfe
Half
Important
Believe
Out
Come
Most
Nonfiction
Still
The Most Important
Literature
Century
Second
There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.
Tom Wolfe
Good
Higher
Writer
Good Writer
Motivation
Than
Being
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
Tom Wolfe
Communism
Way
Pretty
Costly
Idealistic
Spread
Goal
Did
Stop
Achieved
Which
Really
Vietnam
Thing
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