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Steve Breen
is the two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning cartoonist
for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Cagle
11 December 2013
http://www.cagle.com/news/nelson-mandela/page/12/ - broken URL
Character:
Nelson Mandela
qualities UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/26/
heroism-is-the-most-human-of-qualities
honesty USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/
opinion/the-honesty-of-carrie-fisher.html
humility
USA
http://www.gocomics.com/mattdavies/2017/01/19
nice UK
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/17/
sports-direct-mike-ashley-newcastle-united-profile
open-minded
USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/
991700784/youre-probably-not-as-open-minded-as-you-think-heres-how-to-practice
outspoken
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/
sara-ehrman-dead-adviser-to-clintons.html
upbeat
positive
brave
bravery
USA
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/29/
nx-s1-5022937/jonathan-todd-timid-graphic-novel
courageous
dogged
USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/
1122091522/a-slain-las-vegas-reporter-is-remembered-
as-a-fair-but-dogged-journalist
grit USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/arts/
philip-levine-former-us-poet-laureate-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-87.html
heroes UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/26/
heroism-is-the-most-human-of-qualities
heroism UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/26/
heroism-is-the-most-human-of-qualities
duty USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/
a-mothers-illness-a-daughters-duty/
sense of duty
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/
prince-philip-charm-wit-sense-duty-recalled-leaders-world
defiant USA
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/
life-in-prison-for-would-be-times-square-bomber/
dignified USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment
charm UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/
prince-philip-charm-wit-sense-duty-recalled-leaders-world
courtly USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/us/
justice-stevens-memoir-recounts-time-on-court-sidebar.html
wit UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/
prince-philip-charm-wit-sense-duty-recalled-leaders-world
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/06/
simon-hoggart-wit-wisdom-guardian-observer
perennially trim and dapper
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/06/
paul-mccartney-review
tall, bespectacled and jovial
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/
arts/music/bobby-rogers-dies-at-73-sang-in-smokey-robinsons-miracles.html
well read, impeccably dressed
and quite tall (he
stood 6-foot-4)
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/us/
politics/thomas-foley-former-house-speaker-dies-at-84.html
compassionate
selflessness USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/
12backpack.html
selfishness UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/
margaret-thatcher-editorial
forgiveness
wisdom UK
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/06/
simon-hoggart-wit-wisdom-guardian-observer
Illustration: Rachel Levit.
Photography by Tony Cenicola
The New York Times
The Moral Bucket List
NYT
APRIL 11, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html
radiate an inner light
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html
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