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As an eminent neuroscientist, Damasio is as qualified as anyone to define the brain, and he calls it an "'organ' of information and government.

The vast majority of presidential abuses are properly addressed through normal legal and political checks.

the public has grasped that the Constitution demands wrongdoing of a very high order to justify impeachment

For this survival type, anger tends to be the default emotion; it is easily accessible and used to intimidate others.

The wife can file for a retirement benefit, but then immediately suspend its collection and restart the benefit at or before age 70, during which time she will earn Delayed Retirement Credits of 8 percent a year.

one reviewer called the first version of this book "the new Over-50 Shades of Grey"). But

His wife loved him. This was staggering. It rewrote history.

The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world.

she makes a sound with her throat like she's annoyed or going to throw up and then changes it over to a 1990s rock oldies channel.

Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.

Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl .

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl ' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.

Sadie eyed him, hands on hips. Bird, she said, with infuriating pity, you don't understand anything, do you?

Vintage." Lexie sighed and set upon the rack with reverence.

that attention came with expectations that—like snow—drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.

Laura Briggs's Taking Children: A History of American Terror gives an invaluable overview.

Writings on McCarthyism, including Naming Names, by Victor S. Navasky, and The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, by Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery, provided a chilling glimpse into how all-pervasive fear can become; Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, by Geoffrey R. Stone, cataloged dozens of historical examples with eerie resonances to our current times; and books such as Ronald C. Rosbottom's When Paris Went Dark: The City

If they want to help the black community, why don't they make some changes to the system first instead?

Removed. Three years ago, it says. Someone complained, probably. That it encouraged pro-PAO sentiment, or something. Some of our donors have—opinions. On China, or in this case, anything that vaguely resembles it.

Alyec is steely-eyed, chisel-faced young Russian. -Paul

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.