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" My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football. "
Nancy Gibbs
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. "
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" 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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" It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. "
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" 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. "
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" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "
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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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" When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. "
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" Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating. "
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" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "
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" 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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" If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. "
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" George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. "
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" I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly. "
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" We want laws to be applied predictably. "
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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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" The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. "
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" 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. "
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" A president can't go to every memorial service. "
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" Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves. "
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" In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. "
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" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "
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" It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. "
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" Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well. "
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" 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. "
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