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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we`d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
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Voters don`t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
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Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it`s finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even
Abigail Van Buren
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
David Brooks
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
David Brooks
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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 theological lunacy.
David Brooks
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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don`t want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible ...
David Brooks
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The rich don`t exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
David Brooks
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
David Brooks
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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 you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
David Brooks
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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 building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
David Brooks
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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks
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Wisdom doesn`t automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It`s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we`d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it`s an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can`t speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
Abigail Van Buren
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The best index to a person`s character is (a) how he treats people who can`t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can`t fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
