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A picture can hide as much as it reveals.

~Alexandra Petri

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The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

~Alexandra Petri

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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: About Advice Asked Before Blur Burden Cannot Committee Gives Help Many Normal Normal People Only Otherwise Overwhelming People Pieces Sane Some Something Start Take Them Themselves Together Urge Were Wisdom You

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Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Any Disregard Facts Intellectually Knowledge Makes Material Meaningless More Other Possible Postmodernism Raw Raw Material See Significant Sophisticated Tend Than Thanks Thought Trivia Vital

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I would say 'competence' actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase 'passionate dentist' is deeply unnerving.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: About Actually Any Because Competence Competent Day Deeply Dentist Feel Give Give Me Important Me Might More Only Over Passion Passionate Phrase Say Slightly Something Strongly Than Things Understand Would

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Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Because Bottled Days Define Defined Did Everyone Few Generation Peculiar Perfectly Representative Sample Those Up Were Who Woodstock Zeitgeist

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You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

~Alexandra Petri

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Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

~Alexandra Petri

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There should be no real difficulty in condemning Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan. They are, for God's sake, Nazis and white supremacists. This should not require moral courage. This is obvious. This is the moral equivalent of the text you type to prove you're not a robot.

~Alexandra Petri

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Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Ability Age Ball Experience Fast-Food Gain Health Health Insurance Insurance Life Like Lose Pit Play Restaurants Teeth Things You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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