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Category: Peggy Noonan

Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.

Friends, Compliment, True

Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money

appreciation, bravery, faithfulness, honesty, ticker-tape

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, ‘Go outside and play in the culture,’ and the culture — relatively innocent, and boring — could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up. Grown ups now know that you can’t send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.

culture, parenting

Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money…

appreciation, brave, faithful, ticker-tape

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

humor, politics, wall-street-journal

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace – a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we’re in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

bipartisanship, patriotism, politics, respect

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom….Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

politics, polls, priorities, voting

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you’re doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won’t thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it’s not only the best answer but the only one.

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you’re doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won’t thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it’s not only the best answer but the only one.