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I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

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They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

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People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we are all built from “crooked timber”— from Immanuel K...more

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(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

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[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

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Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when t...more

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Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any cons...more

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Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

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there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominen...more

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To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.