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A picture can hide as much as it reveals.
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.
All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.
All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.
All the weird inconveniences of adult life that you thought they made up to lend excitement and color to episodes of 'Sex and the City' are, in fact, real.
All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'
Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.
Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.
Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.
At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
Awkward is a state of being.
Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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