My dad was a terrible businessman.
AL FRANKENVeterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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