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" 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. "

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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. "

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" There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list. "

" New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola. "

" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "

" 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. "

" Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. "

" 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. "

" If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. "

" What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. "

" 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. "

" As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. "

" I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. "

" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. "

" Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. "

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

" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "

" 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. "

" The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. "

" Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. "

" The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well. "

" The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. "

" Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. "

" America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. "