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The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. Regina Brett

It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?' Regina Brett

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It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event. Regina Brett

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life. Regina Brett

Sad Life Work You Joy First Way Obituaries Know Got End Up Survivors List Behind Achievements Place Clubs Social Grandkids Your Show Why Last

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands? Regina Brett

Life Freedom Courage Fate Power Sit Our Kind Takes Another How Person Hands Jury Want Hold Decide Us Many

Nothing trumps good conversation. Rich Eisen

Good Conversation Nothing Good Conversation

We are a segmented society, living in our individual bubbles. Richard Cohen

Living Society Our Individual Bubbles

Trump is in the White House, fulminating on Twitter, messing up foreign policy, mistaking critics for enemies, refusing to immediately and unequivocally condemn neo-Nazis, racists, and other assorted goons - and, in general, failing to provide the nation with a scintilla of moral leadership. This will last until it can't any longer. Richard Cohen

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Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon. Richard Cohen

Moon Sets About Something GOP Howling

You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. Richard Engel

Love You Liberty Prosperity Victory Few Military Earnest Hopeful Baghdad Names Gotta Camp Just Military Bases Bases Eager

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army. Richard Harding Davis

Army Steady Could Through River Roar Between Like Cliffs Passing Hear Tumult Canyon Races Night Sleep

How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? Rick Santelli

You People Pay Neighbor Mortgage How Want Your Many

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. Robert D. Kaplan

Terrorism Poverty Development Causes Upheaval

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind. Robert Fisk

Dangerous Liberating Kind Come Deadly Tanks Forms Two

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. Robert Fisk

Government Seen Think Unpatriotic Potentially Tend Journalists Along Policy Courageous Go Question Very Being Subversive Internationally

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. Robert Fisk

Son Book Speak Presidency Unknown Spent Syrian Ministry Emerged Archives Ten Ten Years New New Book Dead Adviser Foreign Still His Years Hitherto Confidential Cannot Information Who Published Interpreter

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. Ron Fournier

Life Politics Long Humility Way Long Way Goes Dose

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. Ron Reagan

Beautiful Great Morning You Wife Setting Air City Open Beautiful City Like Smells Exhaust Opposed Pine Front Front Door Just Door Bus Prefer Your Sea Seattle

I mow my own lawn. Ron Reagan

Own Lawn My Own Mow

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists. Ron Reagan

Party Frankly Members One Thing Join Bigots Racists Who Thing

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Ronald Kessler

Future Best Behavior Past New Academy Predictor Agents Teaches

It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. Rose George

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