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Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that 'whoosh' sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.

~Meghan Daum

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We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

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As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.

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To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

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Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

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To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

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The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

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The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.

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Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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