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• I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

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  Love, Moving, Fog

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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

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  Done, Way, Temperature

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• The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

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  Party, Political, Historical

  "Tea Party Movement Rescued the GOP" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 22, 2010.

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• The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

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  Funeral, Faces, Nervous

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

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  Shoes, Rivers, Floating

  "Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton". www.wsj.com. November 30, 2007.

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• I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

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  Boredom, Sailing, Apathy

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

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  Style, Resentment, Magnetic

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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