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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?
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We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
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[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.
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Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
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For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
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I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
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A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.
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[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.
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The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
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The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.
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Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
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My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie if you're wrong, correct do not misrepresent and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.
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In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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