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Steve Breen

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/

 

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

 

 

 

 

outspoken        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/
sara-ehrman-dead-adviser-to-clintons.html

 

 

 

 

brave

 

 

 

 

courageous

 

 

 

 

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/

 

 

 

 

upbeat

 

 

 

 

positive

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

courtly        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/us/
justice-stevens-memoir-recounts-time-on-court-sidebar.html

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

wit        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/06/
simon-hoggart-wit-wisdom-guardian-observer

 

 

 

 

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

http://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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