Timothy Noah quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Timothy Noah has a lot to say. In this list we present the 15 best Timothy Noah quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Timothy Noah quotes
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
— Timothy Noah
Being superintendent or the superintendent’s chief of staff is important work, but there’s no chance it’s as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it’s as important.
— Timothy Noah
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
— Timothy Noah
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
— Timothy Noah
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
— Timothy Noah
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we’ll probably spend years learning about.
— Timothy Noah
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington – the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city’s avatars of centrism and continuity – Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
— Timothy Noah
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
— Timothy Noah
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government’s investment in private health care.
— Timothy Noah
Expressing truth is hard work.
— Timothy Noah
Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford’s.
— Timothy Noah
Was President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
— Timothy Noah
Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins – its own and everybody else’s. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.
— Timothy Noah
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
— Timothy Noah
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
— Timothy Noah
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don’t acquire wisdom from it.
— Timothy Noah
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