The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

His youth was a wingless Dodo.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

My job is to find the stories, find where to go, do the research, do the logistics, be there on location, and do as much as possible to get the footage that we need to make an incredible film.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.