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You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life,


William Strauss

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NEIL STRAUSS Attraction is not an option.
NEIL STRAUSS If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
ROBERT STRAUSS I am taking on more, speaking in more schools, sometimes more than I'd like to, but it's important. ...
GERD STRAUSS I'm thinking about peace and the people of Israel. That's basically it.
GERD STRAUSS What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillo...
DARIN STRAUSS What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capa...
DARIN STRAUSS Si había cuestionado mi humanidad antes, ya no lo hacía. La forma en que me sentía por Noah era m...
LEE STRAUSS Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes mem...
DARIN STRAUSS What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never...
DARIN STRAUSS If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you...
DARIN STRAUSS After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morni...
DARIN STRAUSS I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as ...
DARIN STRAUSS