Another QOTY

[Jonathan Lighter]

Naturally I thought of the same sick, twisted, and gratuitously
irrelevant interpretation, but I lack your simple eloquence.

JL

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> quoted:
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> > "He was somebody who would _stay in and stand up_. And that's what love
> is."
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> Isn't that what gender is?
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> Once that we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity,
> or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
> trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
> that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
> idiotic or unworthy.
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