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Peggy Noonan
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Peggy Noonan
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 7
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The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.
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The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
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[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.
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Abortion is either OK or it's not.
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Wit penetrates humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence humor is imagination operating on good nature.
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