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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar Assad has to go. He's going to stay. So we're out of the game.
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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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There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.
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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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When a president speaks that usually means a lot.
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That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
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Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.
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Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
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The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
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You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
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I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.
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I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.
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I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
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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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If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
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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 almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.
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It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
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I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.
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Live life as a series of revelations
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