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David Brooks

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is an American author and conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; and a commentator on NPR. Brooks is currently a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour. Brooks also serves on the board of the radical centrist New America think tank.

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Abdel Ahjamehas quotedlast year
Years pass and the deepest parts of yourself go unexplored and unstructured. You are busy, but you have a vague anxiety that your life has not achieved its ultimate meaning and significance. You live with an unconscious boredom, not really loving, not really attached to the moral purposes that give life its worth. You lack the internal criteria to make unshakable commitments.
Abdel Ahjamehas quotedlast year
We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom
Abdel Ahjamehas quoted6 days ago
Most of us have clearer strategies for how to achieve career success than we do for how to develop a profound character.
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