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It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.

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Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

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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.

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How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?

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Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

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I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

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Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.

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It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

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When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

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President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

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In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

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