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David Brooks has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least…
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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…
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of…
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to…
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants…
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People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep…
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character…
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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,…
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The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
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It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis…
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The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;…
— Unknown Author
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Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want…
— David Brooks
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I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
— Kathy Reichs
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like…
— Quentin Crisp
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
— Larry Hagman
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of…
— Paul Valery
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was…
— Mark Rothko
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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful…
— Anton Chekhov
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Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well…
— Whoopi Goldberg
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like…
— Unknown Author
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