The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction. - David Brooks

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without. . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

David Brooks

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

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If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.

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Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.

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The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

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I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

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It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

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