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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.

Gene Weingarten

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
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
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Believe Matter Thinking
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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Beliefs Ethnicity Race
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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Care Democracy Support
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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Giving Phones Talking
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
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
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

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