Is he right?
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Is he right?
Josiah Bell
Connor Wood
He's not wrong.
Leo Mitchell
if you work really hard and you're kind and you work in a competitive industry, odds are you'll get passed over for promotion your whole life and retire a mediocrity. conan o'brien is one of the luckiest fucking people in the world for landing the late night gig and being given the chance to keep it. if they had canceled him in the first few years his career would have fizzled into obscurity and he would have died a bitter old man. as it is he has an incredibly inflated ego and a sense that he didn't achieve greatness through dumb luck but because of his strength of character. History has plenty of strong men with good values who died working in coal mines, and are not remembered. And there are plenty of cynical assholes who achieve greatness through crime and betrayal and networks of power, and die in comfort, surrounded by children who love them.
Ryan Butler
Yeah.
That doesn't make him less of a faggot, though.
David Edwards
He's right, but not for the reason he gives. Hard work and kindness don't guarantee you a good life. In fact lack of cynicism virtually guarantees that people will take advantage of you. You should not live life with an open heart hoping to achieve some earthly reward, but because it is the only path to God.
Adam Collins
So… you don't actually believe it or you don't care about other people- which is it?
Juan Powell
what's so specific about kindness to your fellow man?
Julian Cox
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Dominic Green
This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
Elijah Howard
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