My short-term memory has greatly improved from where it was, from that I was able to start feeling better and thinking clearer so I took myself off of all of the different medications I was on and that stuck, when I was there they made it very clear to me that my alcohol consumption was killing me as much as anything else.

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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

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Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

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The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

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My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

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One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

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Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

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Just months after my return home, I, a 32-year-old once-virile male, was experiencing libido issues, we already had four children, waiting on our fifth, and my wife was thinking, ‘We have an enormous problem here. He doesn’t love me anymore.’ I didn’t know what was happening to me. I thought I just needed time.

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If the diabetic’s pancreas doesn’t operate correctly, they have to stay on insulin, so for me, my endocrine system doesn’t produce testosterone the way it should… I’m on a testosterone blend most likely for the rest of my life.

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It’s difficult for guys who have jobs to say, ‘Hey I have to put my whole life on hold for this,’ we needed a way around that where we can effectively treat it and people don’t have to disrupt their lives to do it.

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It’s highly individualized; no two people are the same, whatever you’re found to be deficient or insufficient in, that’s what we’re going to replace.

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Head trauma often times produces a disruption in your hormonal balance.

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We’re taking out the middleman of the waiting room and [Veteran’s Affairs (VA)] and reducing the costs of what the VA and government spends on TBI patients.

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I would just have these bouts where I would be overcome with emotion and I couldn’t stop crying, I couldn’t control it.

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