Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
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The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
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It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
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The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.