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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

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#facts #going #live #people #quick

I-I'm just - I knew you were beautiful, knew it so very well, but it's like I just woke up to the idea. There's something about you now, Soph. You exude something and I can't quite place my finger on it. You practically glow with it. You devastate me," he said, clutching at his heart. ↗

— Fisher Amelie

#vain #beauty

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#each #hours #know #other #philosophers

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#form #imitation #listening #may #sincerest

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop? ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #day #disturbing #every #every day

We are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#each #magnitude #other

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#disaster #effective #either #going #i