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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

Gene Weingarten

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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Gone Names Recognition
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kids Minority School
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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Careers Decision School
So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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Category Deal Happens Terrifying
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Important People Use
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Drug Kids Thinking
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking

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