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"He told me he couldn't wait for the basketball season to end, so he could go back to baseball and get out of shape."

"The COVID-19 outbreak is yet another demonstration of how the Indian poor are systematically excluded from the government’s policy-making. A case in point is the government’s failure to account for th…"

"He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others."

"I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, an…"

"She had got up behind the chaise and her cloak had been caught by the wheel and was jammed in and it hung there. She was crying after it. Poor thing. Mr. Graham took her into the chaise and the cloak …"

"106 in the valley… I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents."

"In the nuclear family the child is confronted by only two adults contrasted by sex. The tendency towards polarization is unavoidable. The duplication of effort in the nuclear family is directly connec…"

"This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children."

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

"In the cases of nearly all of us, what our fathers were, we are, and we make up our reasons afterwards."

"Montpelier-Home of James Madison"

"Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman."

"Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say “totalitarian,” what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be ba…"

"As children relating to others, we learned a great deal about creating peace and prosperity. Most of us can remember Mom or Dad prying us apart from a playmate after we came to blows. ‘Who started it?…"

"State socialism is the refusal to others and the abandonment for oneself of all true human rights. Under it a man would have no rights over his own property, over his own labor, over his own amusement…"

"Memories of Rufus Choate by Joseph Neilson, published 1884."

"Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"

"Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation."

"Whatever expenditure is sanctioned—even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish—the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay.... The m…"

"Of all the ways whereby children are to be instructed, and their manners formed, the plainest, easiest, and most efficacious, is, to set before their eyes the examples of those things you would have t…"