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• ‟ As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

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• ‟ Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

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• ‟ As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

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• ‟ People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.

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• ‟ How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?

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• ‟ At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

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• ‟ 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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