Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
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I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.
タグ: like, college, great, man
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
タグ: facts, motto, you, truth
Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?
タグ: themselves, wants, really, who
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
タグ: newspaper, like, school, poetry
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
タグ: stem, open, jokes, you, me
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