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" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "
Nancy Gibbs
Direction
Matter
Leadership
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. "
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" Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. "
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" 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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" After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. "
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" 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. "
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" The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. "
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" The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. "
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" As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. "
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" If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. "
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Always
Looking
" 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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Commitment
Confidence
" I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over. "
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Over
Fact
Breaking
" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "
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Power
More
" We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. "
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Justice
Know
" 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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Time
Talent
" Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. "
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Against
Today
Parents
" 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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Start
Battles
Good
" Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others? "
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Test
You
Treat
" Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. "
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Seasons
Generosity
" 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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" Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. "
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" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "
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You
" Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. "
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" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "
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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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" 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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" You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. "
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Family
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