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David Brooks Inspirational Quotes (205)

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I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
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[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.
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The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.
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I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.
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Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.
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I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
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I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.
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Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.
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People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
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People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.
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Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
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Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.
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Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.
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Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.
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I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.
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... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.
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Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope Republican ones to rage.
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Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.
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Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
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I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .
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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.
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For those of us who believe in it, there has to be a movement that says, We still believe in trade. We still believe in international engagement for America. But for those losers or those who are suffering, we've got your back.
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
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