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Properly suffering fools gladly

David Brooks

Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 | 2 a.m.

Recently I was reading a magazine profile of a brilliant statistician. The article mentioned, in passing, that this guy doesn’t suffer fools gladly. I come across that phrase a lot. I’ve read that Al Gore and former Rep. Barney Frank don’t suffer fools gladly. Neither, apparently, did Steve Jobs, George Harrison, Pauline Kael or even Henry David Thoreau. The phrase originally came from William Tyndale’s 1534 translation of the Bible. In it, Paul was ripping into the decadent citizens of Corinth for turning away from his own authoritative teaching and falling for a bunch of second-rate false apostles. “For ye ...

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times.

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By CarmineD (Carmine DiFazio)

Jan. 7, 2013

6:14 a.m.

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Thank you Mr. Brooks for a terrific article. If Didn't know that about the Apostle to the Gentiles: St. Paul. If I may add a point, for the season, particularly the Epiphany. The Shepherds realized that they didn't know anything, and the Wise Men that they didn't know everything. And they both came together in a manger for the same reason to see the One who did.

CarmineD