"People want a reality that tells them they're……" — David Brooks
"People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time."
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74 Quotes by David Brooks
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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…
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap,…
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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…
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a…
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one…
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom…
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love…
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which…
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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…
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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…
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It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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