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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we…
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await…
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from…
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the…
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then…
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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any…
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and…
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Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time…
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He…
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Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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