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" Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. "
Nancy Gibbs
Democracy
Race
Tie
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" After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. "
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" It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. "
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" There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. "
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" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "
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" Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. "
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" Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school. "
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" Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' "
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" The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. "
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" Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. "
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" All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. "
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" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "
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" It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets. "
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" A president can't go to every memorial service. "
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" War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S. "
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" What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. "
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" Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. "
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" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "
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" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "
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" Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. "
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" Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own. "
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" If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. "
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" Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. "
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" 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. "
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