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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Alexandra Petri
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They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.
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It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'
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Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.
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George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.
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Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
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Awkward is a state of being.
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In general, sincerity is awkward.
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Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.
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If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.
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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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