Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

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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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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can

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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

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When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

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