We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.
David BrooksWith a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.
David BrooksThe government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.
David BrooksIt is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
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