It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.
It will come to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes football akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tan...
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.
If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough. You have to go all the way.
I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is.
I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if they'd succeeded, there would absolut...
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like of music.
And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make...
The increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of...
Machine powering the modern world is too complicated for the average person to fix or calibrate. And they know this. This is what makes an IT guy different from you. He might make less money, he might...
[...] outlining how certain fans of ’NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who...
Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless… I never have any idea how other people feel; they always appear fine to me. But if somebody had pointedly played Pat Benatar’s Love is a Battlef...
Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.
What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence, Stringer Bell's murder, gambling addictions, crib...
We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
The mere recognition of an extrinsic reality damages the intrinsic merits of one’s own reality. In other words, it’s a mistake to (consciously) do what everyone else is doing, just as it’s a mistake t...