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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. every meal would be a pizza. every pair of pants, even those in a brooks brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. and - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to mel gibson.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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Imagine If All Of Life Were Determined

P. J. O'Rourke
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. every meal would be a pizza. every pair of pants, even those in a brooks brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. and - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to mel gibson.
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I remember watching mel gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. gibson said: 'well, i can't believe this is all there is'. and i thought: 'wait a minute. you're mel gibson. you have millions of dollars. you're a great-looking chap with every conceivable blessing that could be bestowed upon a man. and that's not good enough ?'
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Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. if this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only i stone, i stone, i stone. but perhaps it cannot even say i. it thinks: stone, stone, stone... god enjoys being all, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.
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