The Way I See It #
I still remember when I first heard of the "The Way I See It" advertisement. It features little sayings on the side of Starbucks's coffee cups from some number of famous folk. Some woman mistook this program as the baristas telling a story to her every time she came in, rather than understanding these "stories" would only be printed on her cups; and quite likely repeated a few visits.
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"Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. If 'violence never solved anything,' cops wouldn't have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it's better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don't settle them."
-- Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of
National Review Online.
I don't know why. As long as I've known, I've had peculiar habits. One of my favorites to this day is picking scabs, like losing friends. I love to get the entire scab tissue off, even if it bleeds (and when it does, hurts).
I don't know why. But I define relationships as how I'm so very different from all these people around me. How much we're dissimilar, and - I guess - how much better than those people I am. As if souls can be read.
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"Chances are you are scared of fictions. Chances are you are only fleetingly happy. Chances are you know much less than you think you do. Chances are you feel a little guilty. Chances are you want people to lie to you. Perhaps the answer lies on the side of a coffee cup. You are lost."
-- David Cross
Comedian, writer, actor.
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"Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. If 'violence never solved anything,' cops wouldn't have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it's better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don't settle them."
-- Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of
National Review Online.
I don't know why. As long as I've known, I've had peculiar habits. One of my favorites to this day is picking scabs, like losing friends. I love to get the entire scab tissue off, even if it bleeds (and when it does, hurts).
I don't know why. But I define relationships as how I'm so very different from all these people around me. How much we're dissimilar, and - I guess - how much better than those people I am. As if souls can be read.
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"Chances are you are scared of fictions. Chances are you are only fleetingly happy. Chances are you know much less than you think you do. Chances are you feel a little guilty. Chances are you want people to lie to you. Perhaps the answer lies on the side of a coffee cup. You are lost."
-- David Cross
Comedian, writer, actor.