“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants to do.”
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“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that
he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
Benjamin Franklin, quoted in NationalReview.com
“The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more
real than the things we like about ourselves.”
Columnist Ellen Goodman, quoted in RefDesk.com
“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
Bob Hope, quoted in The Buffalo News
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
Goethe, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
Susan Sontag, quoted in Forbes.com
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Panama and Canada are caught in a dispute over a copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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‘Dark woke’: what it means and how it might help DemocratsThe Explainer Respectability be damned, some Democrats are embracing crasser rhetoric
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Book reviews: ‘American Reich: A Murder in Orange County; Neo-Nazis; and a New Age of Hate’ and ‘Winter: The Story of a Season’Feature A look at a neo-Nazi murder in California and how winter shaped a Scottish writer
