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Dec 13th 2007 Translation of Lysias’s speech from Plato’s Phaedrus

Hello little boy, let’s get it on and then be good friends! I don’t love you, but that’s okay, because if I did it would be worse for everyone! It’s really better to just be friends and have sex. Have I convinced you yet? No?

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Aug 17th 2004 Briefly (a recap)

“Brevity is the soul of wit” comes from Shakespeare!?

*dies laughing*

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Mar 4th 2004 No time!

It is my experience that the ubiquitous declaration “I don”t have time!” is often nothing more than a false way of saying “This does not concern me” or “I don”t want to deal with this.” Another of many devices we have conjured to use language in order to avoid communication.

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