"What family you were born into matters so……" — David Brooks
"What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way."
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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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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…
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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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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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