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It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and wait for your time in office. [Donald] Trump is not a hang-back kind of guy.
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When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.
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Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
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There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.
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Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
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Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.
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I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.
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The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.
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The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
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The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
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The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
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If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems to be essential for any organization. And it should be essential if this were a normal administration, rather than a fiefdom, where everybody simply tries to give Donald Trump a good headline every day.
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People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.
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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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Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could be in competing for power because we know if we're all barbaric as we could be, the whole country and the whole society falls apart.
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Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.
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The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small donors. Meanwhile, the amount of people, the incumbents being reelected has just been - that has been going up and up and up.
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I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
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Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.
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