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" If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. "
Nancy Gibbs
Millennials
Always
Looking
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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. "
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" Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take. "
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" Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis. "
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" The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat. "
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" High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. "
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" Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. "
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" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "
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Start
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" We want laws to be applied predictably. "
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Laws
Want
" Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind. "
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" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Month
Women
Time
" 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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Walk
America
Down
" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "
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Direction
Matter
Leadership
" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "
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Ends
Bring
Reckoning
" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "
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Will
Born
People
" 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. "
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Hands
People
Thought
" When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines. "
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Complexity
Storm
Trouble
" At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV. "
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Kids
Balancing
Seems
" I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? "
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Need
" Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are. "
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You
" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "
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Power
" It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. "
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Who
" Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson. "
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Lesson
Boy
Humble
" The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. "
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Faith
Him
Never
" In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own. "
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Wise
Own
" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "
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Moon
Power
More
" 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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Tool
Hard
" When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable. "
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