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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

Gene Weingarten

From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Books Doctors Kings
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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Kitten Murder Preparation
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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One Thing Thinking Writing
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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Change Greatest Many Won
The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Albatross Mean Verbs
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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Cynical Intelligent People

I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

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