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Peggy Noonan

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Total quotes: 2

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Peggy Noonan

Birthname

Birthday: September 7, 1950

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Educated At: Adelphi University

Political Parties: Republican Party

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“Reading books forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect, connect one historical moment with another. Reading books provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events, of the world — of life itself.”

— Peggy Noonan, 128th Annual Commencement Remarks

Tagged: Books, In Praise of Reading, Literature, Books Are Great, Education, Life Learner

“Almost everyone involved in politics or covering politics now is getting dumber. They're getting lost in a sea of dumb. They may drown in it. People in politics now are getting what they know through the internet, through Google searches and Wikipedia. These can give you a certain sense of things but are by nature quick, lifeless and shallow reads that link to other quick, dry and shallow reads that everyone else has also read. Who wrote them? Nobody quite knows. And what you see is often presented at a slant. They put forward as fact what are really the biases or limited knowledge of the writer. It all becomes a big lying loop. Or at least a big, un-nourishing, inadequate one.”

— Peggy Noonan, 128th Annual Commencement Remarks

Tagged: Journalsim, Politics in the Age of Snapchat, Public ID

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