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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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The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with…
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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave…
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped…
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Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses…
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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me. A toast to piracy and it's many shiny rewards. As a career, what…
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