Remembering George Carlin and his adult language and voice for reason
C Hamilton
invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do,
every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of
ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten
things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and
torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn
and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But
He loves you."
-- George Carlin Politically Incorrect, May 29, 1997
How prayer works and how to work it...
How to use prayer effectively
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m5QqEmBi8iw
George Carlin--The Modern Man
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCljFYn3zTY
George Carlin on religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
But He Loves You...
Now George Carlin (who died Sunday) will find out if God really loves
him - or, for that matter, if He even exists. Let's keep our fingers
crossed for both.
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Bush: God told me to invade Iraq
President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting'
By Rupert Cornwell
7 October 2005
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-509925.html
President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and
attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine
mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a
state for the Palestinians.
The President made the assertion during his first meeting with
Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will
be broadcast this month. <snip>
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(Why worry about illegal war when the Rapture is near?)
Today's God: Fu Shen God of luck. Chinese. He is often linked in
iconography with Tsai Shen, God of wealth. and Shou Lao, god of
longevity. Usually depicted with his son, and wearing blue robes, which
signify his official position.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035545/Fu-Shen#267290.hook
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/shou-lao.html
God: generic term for any of 2,500+ imaginary supernatural beings in
human history. Note: the majority of voters in the United States
believe in imaginary supernatural beings and expect their elected
leaders to do the same. No agnostics or atheists (god-free rationalists)
need apply. I want my leaders to live in the world of reason where
evidence is required for belief.
--C Hamilton
Parents and schools do not teach critical thinking, which leaves the
majority of people in the USA living in the world of myth, superstition
and unreason. Children have to be carefully taught.
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101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes
May 12th, 2007
The man who says "life is worth losing" turns 70 today. George would say
that's irony, not a coincidence. George Dennis Carlin was born May 12,
1937 in New York City and for the last 47 years he's been doing stand-up
comedy better than anyone else on the planet. In the process he's pissed
off a lot of people and accumulated some of funniest, and most
controversial, quotes known to man. Even a list of 101 quotes is just
scratching the surface. In no particular order here are his 101 best.
1.. I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!
2.. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of
them are stupider than that.
3.. Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning.
That's just common sense!
4.. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and
get more stuff.
5.. Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is
stuff?
6.. I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life:
Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.
7.. I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you
grow.
8.. You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.
9.. If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball
team, who did they play?
10.. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember
that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
11.. If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd
have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very
little.
12.. No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
13.. There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are
seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7.
They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from
a group that large. "All of you words over here, you seven..baaaad
words." That's what they told us, right? .You know the seven, don't ya?
That you can't say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker,
motherfucker and tits.
14.. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime,
somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those
people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job
done."
15.. The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose
answers I accept.
16.. Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
17.. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible
man.living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of
every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he
doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send
you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and
anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until
the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
18.. Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight,
with widely scattered light by morning.
19.. If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
20.. If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has
cancer.
21.. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer
Texans.
22.. Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft.
23.. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She
said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from
Guatemala."
24.. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer
is.
25.. If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually
find me next door playing pinball.
26.. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently
passed each other in opposite directions.
27.. I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink,
and be Mary.
28.. I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
29.. If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've
got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.
30.. You can prick your finger - just don't finger your prick.
31.. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
32.. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but
anyone going faster is a maniac?
33.. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do
"practice"?
34.. I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but
more as suggestions.
35.. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line
is drawn and cross it deliberately.
36.. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're
born in America, you get a front-row seat.
37.. Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine
is to run out of it.
38.. I never fucked a ten, but one night, I fucked five twos.
39.. I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization
that has a handbook.
40.. I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a
man nailed to two pieces of wood.
41.. Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion
are women you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place? There's such
balance in nature.
42.. So I say, "Live and let live." That's my motto. "Live and let
live." Anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot
the motherfucker. It's a simple philosophy, but it's always worked in
our family.
43.. Catholic - which I was until I reached the age of reason.
44.. Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see: "We are the proud
parents of a child who's self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn't need
us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."
45.. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and
despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
46.. Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
47.. Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist
Jr.
48.. God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.
49.. I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
50.. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all
sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.
51.. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a
fourth sense?
52.. What year did Jesus think it was?
53.. George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our
Country.
54.. Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in
encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because
volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people
to work for no pay for a long time.
55.. In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
56.. Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until
you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for.
Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead
soldiers.
57.. "One thing leads to another"? Not always. Sometimes one thing
leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
58.. No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to
hear it.
59.. Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all
stays here.
60.. The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have
assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear
them splash.
61.. The future will soon be a thing of the past.
62.. The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
63.. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a
courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not
commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of
lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
64.. Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.
65.. The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
66.. I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner.
I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.
67.. Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.
68.. "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" This title offends all
three major religions, and even vegetarians!
69.. Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.
70.. And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from
the National Institute of Pancakes: It reads, and I quote, "Fuck
waffles."
71.. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
72.. Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from
the asshole.
73.. Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is
cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.
74.. Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the
client?
75.. I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I
realize I'm listening to it.
76.. Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is
gettin' ready to hang himself.
77.. The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to
be asleep to believe it.
78.. If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we
could wind up with nine-day weekends.
79.. "Meow" means "woof" in cat.
80.. Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
81.. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid
just enough money not to quit.
82.. "No comment" is a comment.
83.. If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something
that doesn't work.
84.. You can't argue with a good blowjob.
85.. Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the
moment they're not actually dying.
86.. So far, this is the oldest I've been.
87.. Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female
alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck.
88.. Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?
89.. When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of
sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
90.. The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people
who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little
practice.
91.. I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
92.. If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!
93.. Hooray for most things!
94.. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work
things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
95.. I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of
falling from heights.
96.. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
97.. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
98.. Life is a zero sum game.
99.. Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.
100.. I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many
people who believe it.
101.. It isn't fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the
butterfly gets all the glory.
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Edgy comic George Carlin dies at 71
By Dean Goodman
Jun 23, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080623/us_nm/carlin_dc
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines
about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart
failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at
Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT)
after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman
Jeff Abraham told Reuters.
Known for his edgy, provocative material developed over 50 years, the
bald, bearded Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in
the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine
called "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television." A regulatory
battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S.
Supreme Court.
In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica
Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin's
routine were indecent, and that the government's broadcast regulator
could ban them from being aired at times when children might be
listening.
The Grammy-winning Carlin remained an active presence on the comedy
circuit. Carlin was scheduled to receive the John F. Kennedy Center's
prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in November and his
publicist said Carlin performed in Las Vegas this month.
His comedic sensibility revolved around a central theme: humanity is a
cursed, doomed species.
"I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this
country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in
all these man-made institutional ideas," he told Reuters in a 2001
interview.
Carlin told Playboy in 2005 that he looked forward to an afterlife where
he could watch the decline of civilization on a "heavenly CNN."
"The world is a big theater-in-the round as far as I'm concerned, and
I'd love to watch it spin itself into oblivion," he said. "Tune in and
watch the human adventure."
Carlin wrote three best-selling books, won four Grammy Awards, recorded
22 comedy albums, headlined 14 HBO television specials, and hosted
hundreds of variety shows. One was the first episode of "Saturday Night
Live" in 1975, when he was high on cocaine.
Drug addiction plagued him for much of his life, beginning with
marijuana experimentation as a teen, graduating to cocaine in the 1970s,
and then to prescription painkillers and wine. During the cocaine years,
Carlin ignored his finances and ended up owing about $3 million in back
taxes. In 2004, he entered a Los Angeles rehab clinic for his alcohol
and Vicodin abuse.
George Dennis Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, in New York City, where
he was raised with an older brother by their single mother. He fondly
recalled that the nuns at his school tolerated his early comedic
inclinations.
After a brief, troubled stint in the U.S. Air Force, he started honing
his comic act, developing such characters as Al Sleet, a "hippie-dippie
weatherman."
Carlin told Playboy that his sensibilities developed in the 1950s, "when
comedy stopped being safe ... (and) became about saying no to
authority." He cited such influences as Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Dick
Gregory and Bob Newhart.
He also dabbled in movies and television, recently voicing a hippie
Volkswagen bus named Fillmore in the Pixar cartoon "Cars."
Carlin is survived by his second wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin
McCall; and brother Patrick. His first wife, Brenda, died of cancer in
1997. News of his death was first reported by the television show
"Entertainment Tonight."
(Additional reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Patricia Zengerle)
Copyright © 2008 Reuters Limited.
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George Carlin: American Radical
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/331953
06/23/2008
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is
drawn and cross it deliberately. -- George Carlin,
The last vote that George Carlin said he cast in a presidential race was
for George McGovern in 1972.
When Richard Nixon, who Carlin described as a member of a sub-species of
humanity, overwhelmingly defeated McGovern, the comedian gave up on the
political process.
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about:
politicians," he explained in a routine that challenged all the premises
of today's half-a-loaf reformers. "Everybody complains about
politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these
politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass
through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents
and American families, American homes, American schools, American
churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are
elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is
what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in,
garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get
selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good;
you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant
Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck.
Maybe something else sucks around here. like, the public. Yeah, the
public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public
Sucks. Fuck Hope.'"
Needless to say, George Carlin was not on message for 2008's "change we
can believe in" election season.
His was a darker and more serious take on the crisis - and the change of
consciousness, sweeping in scope and revolutionary in character, that
was required to address it.
Carlin may have stopped voting in 1972. But America's most consistently
savage social commentator for the best part of a half century, who has
died at age 71, did not give up on politics.
In recent years, in front of audiences that were not always liberal, he
tore apart the neo-conservative assault on liberty with a clarity rarely
evidenced in the popular culture.
Recalling George Bush's ranting about how the endless "war on terror" is
a battle for freedom, Carlin echoed James Madison's thinking with a
simple question: "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters
fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part
to us, do they?"
Carlin gave the Christian right - and the Christian left - no quarter.
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State," Carlin
said. "My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on
their own, so both of them together is certain death."
Carlin's take on the Ronald Reagan administration is the best antidote
to the counterfactual romanticization of the former president - in which
even Barack Obama has engaged - remains the single finest assessment of
Reagan and his inner circle. While Carlin did not complain much about
politicians, he made an exception with regard to the great communicator.
Recorded in 1988 at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, and
later released as an album -- What Am I Doing in New Jersey? - his
savage recollection of the then-concluding Reagan-Bush years opened with
the line: "I really haven't seen this many people in one place since
they took the group photograph of all the criminals and lawbreakers in
the Ronald Reagan administration."
But there was no nostalgia for past fights, no resting on laurels, for
this topical comedian. He read the papers, he followed the news, he
asked questions - the interviews I did with Carlin over the years were
more conversations than traditional Q & A's - and he turned it all into
a running commentary that focused not so much on politics as on the ugly
intersection of power and economics.
No one, not Obama, not Hillary Clinton and certainly not John McCain,
caught the zeitgeist of the vanishing American dream so well as Carlin.
"The owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American
dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Not just aware of but steeped in the traditions of American populism -
more William Jennings Bryan and Eugene Victor Debs than Bill Clinton or
John Kerry - Carlin preached against the consolidation of wealth and
power with a fire-and-brimstone rage that betrayed a deep moral sense
that could never quite be cloaked with four-letter words.
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control
things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians,
they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the
idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You
have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the
important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long
since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the
city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own
all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the
news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend
billions of dollars every year lobbying - lobbying to get what they
want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and
less for everybody else," ranted the comedian whose routines were
studied in graduate schools.
"But I'll tell you what they don't want," Carlin continued. "They don't
want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't
want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.
They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against
their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit
around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know
what they want? Obedient workers - people who are just smart enough to
run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively
accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the
longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing
pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now,
they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking
retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their
criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it.
They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking
place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the
big club."
Carlin did not want Americans to get involved with the system.
He wanted citizens to get angry enough to remake the system.
Carlin was a leveler of the old, old school. And no one who had so
public a platform - as the first host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, a
regular on broadcast and cable televisions shows, a best-selling author
and a favorite character actor in films (he was even the narrator of the
American version of the children's show Thomas the Tank Engine &
Friends) - did more to challenge accepted wisdom regarding our political
economy.
"Let's suppose we all just materialized on Earth and there was a bunch
of potatoes on the ground, okay? There's just six of us. Only six
humans. We come into a clearing and there's potatoes on the ground. Now,
my instinct would be, let's everybody get some potatoes. "Everybody got
a potato? Joey didn't get a potato! He's small, he can't hold as many
potatoes. Give Joey some of your potatoes." "No, these are my potatoes!"
That's the Republicans. "I collected more of them, I got a bigger pile
of potatoes, they're mine. If you want some of them, you're going to
have to give me something." "But look at Joey, he's only got a couple,
they won't last two days." That's the fuckin' difference! And I'm more
inclined to want to share and even out," he explained in an interview
several years ago with The Onion.
"I understand the marketplace, but government is supposed to be here to
redress the inequities of the marketplace," Carlin continued. "That's
one of its functions. Not just to protect the nation, secure our
security and all that shit. And not just to take care of great problems
that are trans-state problems, that are national, but also to make sure
that the inequalities of the marketplace are redressed by the acts of
government. That's what welfare was about. There are people who really
just don't have the tools, for whatever reason. Yes, there are lazy
people. Yes, there are slackers. Yes, there's all of that. But there are
also people who can't cut it, for any given reason, whether it's racism,
or an educational opportunity, or poverty, or a fuckin' horrible home
life, or a history of a horrible family life going back three
generations, or whatever it is. They're crippled and they can't make it,
and they deserve to rest at the commonweal. That's where my fuckin'
passion lies."
Like the radicals of the early years of the 20th century, whose politics
he knew and respected, Carlin understood that free-speech fights had to
come first. And always pushed the limit - happily choosing an offensive
word when a more polite one might have sufficed. By 1972, the year he
won the first of four Grammys for best comedy album, he had developed
his most famous routine: "Seven Words (You Can't Say on Television)."
That summer, at a huge outdoor show in Milwaukee, he uttered all seven
of them in public - and was promptly arrested for disturbing the peace.
When a version of the routine was aired in 1973 on WBAI, the Pacifica
Foundation radio station in New York,. Pacifica received a citation from
the FCC. Pacifica was ordered to pay a fine for violating federal
regulations prohibiting the broadcast of "obscene" language. The ensuing
free-speech fight made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled
5-4 against the First Amendment to the Constitution, Pacifica and
Carlin.
Amusingly, especially to the comedian, a full transcript of the routine
ended up in court documents associated with the case, F.C.C. v. Pacifica
Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978).
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm
perversely kind of proud of," recalled Carlin. Proud enough that you can
find the court records on the comedian's website: www.georgecarlin.com
There will, of course, be those who dismiss Carlin as a remnant of the
sixties who introduced obscenity to the public discourse - just as there
will be those who misread his critique of the American political and
economic systems as little more than verbal nihilism. In fact, George
Carlin was, like the radicals of an earlier age, an idealist - and a
patriot --of a deeper sort than is encountered very often these days.
Carlin explained himself best in one of his last interviews. "There is a
certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for this culture, because
to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion
that is my species--and my culture in America specifically--have let me
down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise,
with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it
on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise,
with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been
shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and
power," he said. "And perhaps it's just a human weakness and an
inevitable human story that these things happen. But there's
disillusionment and some discontent in me about it. I don't consider
myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I
understand the word 'cynic' has more than one meaning, and I see how I
could be seen as cynical. 'George, you're cynical.' Well, you know, they
say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps
the flame still flickers a little, you know?"
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