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" America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. "

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" You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine. "

" Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. "

" Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. "

" We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. "

" It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. "

" The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. "

" Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. "

" Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. "

" If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. "

" It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. "

" All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. "

" Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind. "

" Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. "

" Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? "

" I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't. "

" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "

" Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends. "

" Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. "

" The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. "

" A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers. "

" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "

" Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating. "

" Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines. "

" The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. "

" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "

" Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. "

" Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind. "

" Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. "

" George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. "