"Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic,' in which situations purporting to be ironic are merely sad, random, or annoying (a traffic jam when you're late, a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break) perpetuates widespread misuse of the word and outrages irony prescriptivists. It is of course ironic that 'Ironic' is an unironic song about irony. Bonus irony: 'Ironic' is widely cited as an example of how Americans don't get irony, despite the fact that Alanis Morissette is Canadian."
Jon Winokur, The Big Book of Irony
Rationalism is never so weak as when it fancies itself strong. Hugh Martin
A sermon is an oral address to the popular mind, upon religious truth contained in the Scriptures, and elaborately treated with a view of persuasion. Phelps
Give to the poor those things which you cannot keep that you may receive those things which you cannot loose. Augustine
Douglas Newell IV
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