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Pick your battles

created by Deborah909

(idea) by Deborah909 (4.7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Mon Jul 03 2000 at 19:46:34

I don't have the energy to be individualistic, original, unconventional, and confrontational about every issue. When it comes to a lot of petty1 questions in life, it's just easier to be polite, normal, conformist, and conventional. I have to pick my battles carefully.

This enables me to lull the people around me into relaxing while I quietly implement my plans for world domination.

  1. When it comes to non-petty questions, I have fully earned the sobriquet "The Mouth That Knows No Fear."

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Conserve Your Passion The two types of political correctness World domination Sobriquet
There's no such thing as normal Your radical ideas about society, individualism, and religion have already occurred to others And They Shall Know No Fear If you know a religion to be false, should you tell its followers?
battle Individualism individual freedom Aha
Individualistic unconventional petty polite
normal Conformist exasperation All mouth and no trousers
Civilization III Civilization 2 Conformity individuality
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