"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan……" — Peggy Noonan
"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."
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63 Quotes by Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan has 63 quotes on this site.
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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves.…
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
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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…
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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and…
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea…
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We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism,…
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Read good, big important things.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog,…
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Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of…
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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat…
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More Barren Quotes
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
— Tony Blair
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Joseph F. Lamb
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
— Samuel Johnson
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