Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.