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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

Topics: Bar Buy Campaign Cleanliness Complain Get Guys Just Least Like People President Really Selling Soap Telling Two Used Value You

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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

Topics: About Character Cover Hold How Ideas Important Knowing Matters More More And More Politics Realize Talk Than Way You

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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

Topics: America Aspirations Certain Clash Competitive Culture Democracy Dreams Interests Just Merely Mobility Personality Politics Represents

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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

Topics: Alone Aspects Building Character Educated Except Highly Important Leave Lives Most People Taught The Most Important Them Universities Which Young Young People

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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 things to hate.

~David Brooks

Topics: Beyond Causes Comprehensible Confront Cult Death Diversion Engage Frightening Hate Horror Makes Many Mental More Negotiation No Reason Off Reason Rush Search Sort Things Want

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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

Topics: Explain Form Known Logical Lunacy Procedure Theological Unknown

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The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

~David Brooks

Topics: Exploit Just Poor Rich Them

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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

~David Brooks

Topics: Before Born Did Family Matters More Much Perverse Than Way Were You

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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

~David Brooks

Topics: How People Reality Right Tells Them Time Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: August 11th, 1961

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