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People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

David Brooks

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.
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I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.
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I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.
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Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope Republican ones to rage.
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I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.
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The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.
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Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?
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We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.
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People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
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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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If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.
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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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Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
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I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.
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Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.
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Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents.
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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 agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.
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I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.
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As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.
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