106 Quotes by Bret Stephens

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    Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

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    The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.

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    We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

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    Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

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    I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

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    I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.

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    Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

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    Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.

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    The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

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