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David Brooks is a columnist at The New York Times and the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, among other books.
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'You entered BC during one historical era which had one set of values. You graduate from BC at the start of a different historical era, with a new set of values, which you will write with the book of your lives.'