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“We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.”

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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a…

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I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

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I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we…

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The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in…

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You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

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The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

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instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

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I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are…

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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

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All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

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But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots…

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I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and…

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Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a…

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She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with…

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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