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Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United…

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Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the…
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the…
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think…
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about…
I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects…
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can…
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are…
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that…
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what…
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped…
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting…

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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is… — Christopher Columbus
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I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it… — Anita Hill
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money, — Robert Crandall
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