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Peggy Noonan
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“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.”
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“I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.”
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“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”
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“A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.”
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“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”
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“Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.”
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“... I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.”
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“... resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.”
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“... one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back — but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.”
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“We are all actors now. ... Everyone in America now explains a moment in their lives by saying, 'It was like a scene out of ...'”
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“... when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.”
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“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
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“Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice — like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.”
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“[Speech material written for George H.W. Bush's presidential campaign:] A kinder, gentler nation. ... A thousand points of light.”
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“[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.'”
Peggy Noonan, U.S. speechwriter, government official
(1950)