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If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

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I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

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To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.

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The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.

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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.

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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

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For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

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The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

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I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1935

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