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David Brooks Inspirational Quotes (204)

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It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
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The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
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Live life as a series of revelations
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There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.
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Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.
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I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.
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It's impossible for one person to think of everything.
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You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.
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Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
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I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.
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There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.
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Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.
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We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.
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It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.
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People have been raised in a morality that says, If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.
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I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.
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Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch out for is, I could totally paint a scenario where Trump runs an authoritarian regime. I can totally paint a scenario where he has no control over his own government.
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The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
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Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
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I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.
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Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.
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I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
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