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" I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time. "

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" The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs. "

" 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. "

" You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. "

" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "

" A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. "

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

Nancy Gibbs

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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. "

" When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. "

" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "

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

" There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant. "

" In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. "

" Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline. "

" In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political. "

" In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion. "

" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "

" I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making. "

" We want laws to be applied predictably. "

" Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets. "

" Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. "

" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "

" All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score. "

" Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it. "

" Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. "

Nancy Gibbs

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" Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. "