- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Closely allied to the assumption that Democrats can't win because they're too secular is the view that they can't win if they're too liberal. This assumption has steered Hillary Clinton toward the center, following her husband. I tend to share this view myself.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
To count as transformative, a president needs to synthesize the moment and mood of the country.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.
- Gambling
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- Nov 07, 2020
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
- Gambling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.
- Exertion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find - at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers - unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
- Deemed
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- Nov 07, 2020