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- Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to…
- If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have…
- You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get…
- Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking…
- The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the…
- 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 Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come…
- There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine…
- All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to…
- I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids…
- Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us…
- Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and…
- Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
- 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…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle