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" Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. "

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" I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. "

" After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. "

" When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. "

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" 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. "

" If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. "

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" As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it. "

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" A president can't go to every memorial service. "

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" 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. "

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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. "