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Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
Alexandra Petri
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Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
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Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.
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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.
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All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.
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YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.
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No one has debates on Twitter.
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People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.
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