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

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" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "

" 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. "

" High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. "

" 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. "

" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance? "

" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "

" Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. "

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

" Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. "

" 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. "

" Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. "

" It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. "

" Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. "