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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. "

" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "

" Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? "

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" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "

" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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" At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV. "

" Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. "

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