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Awkward is a state of being.

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Topics: Awkward Being State

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If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

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Topics: Antithesis Awkward Barack Barack Obama Obama

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As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

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Topics: Anything Existed Kids Know Long Nowadays Old Old People People Seem

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It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

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Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

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George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.

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Topics: Along Also American Avoid Began Cherry Could Down Establish Expecting George George Washington Govern Had He Help Just Laugh Line Make More Possibly Presidents Somewhere Than Trees Us Washington

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All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'

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Topics: Daily Daily Show Grew Obama Report Show Up Voters Watching Who Young

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Obama isn't funny.

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Topics: Funny Obama

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Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Body Conservative Diversity Economic Geographical Harvard Imagine Intellectually Itself Liberal Naive Opinions Professors Racial Radical Remains Seem Segregated Social Student

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By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Ability Beliefs Defend Disagree Lose Opinions Our Ourselves Those Whose

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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