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It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
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I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.
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Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.
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Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
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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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Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.
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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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I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.
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