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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

My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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Kids Minority School
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Believe Monster People
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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Care Democracy Support
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Black Local Middle School
But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Important People Use
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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Cute Daughter Senior

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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