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" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "
Nancy Gibbs
Love
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American
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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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" 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. "
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" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "
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" Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline. "
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" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "
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" 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. "
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" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "
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" Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. "
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" Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. "
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" The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. "
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" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about. "
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" 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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" Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends. "
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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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" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "
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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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" Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. "
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" Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. "
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" 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. "
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" Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. "
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" I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. "
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" Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. "
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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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