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JEFFREY KLUGER I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to e...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
JEFFREY KLUGER The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedo...
BELINDA JEFFREY As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me...
JEFFREY KLUGER Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p...
JEFFREY DEITCH Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Re...
JEFFREY SKOLL Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both th...
JEFFREY KLUGER I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the succes...
JEFFREY GITOMER Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served u...
JEFFREY KLUGER Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use...
JEFFREY KLUGER Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr...
JEFFREY KLUGER There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an...
JEFFREY KLUGER Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort o...
JEFFREY KLUGER All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neuroch...
JEFFREY KLUGER It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an...
JEFFREY KLUGER Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
JEFFREY KLUGER I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
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