The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.
David BrooksResearch by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.
David BrooksWe have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.
David BrooksPopulists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.
David BrooksRepublicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.
David BrooksThe roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'
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