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Words of Wisdom from Dwight Schrute


Rainn Wilson says a blog is the ideal way for his character from "The Office, Dwight, to reach fans. "Most people's blogs are like boring, pontificating rants, and that is right up Dwight's alley."
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Rainn Wilson says a blog is the ideal way for his character from "The Office, Dwight, to reach fans. "Most people's blogs are like boring, pontificating rants, and that is right up Dwight's alley." (Associated Press photos / The Spokesman-Review)

Rainn Wilson says a blog is the ideal way for his character from "The Office, Dwight, to reach fans. "Most people's blogs are like boring, pontificating rants, and that is right up Dwight's alley."

Dwight Schrute is a character on the television program "The Office." This website has compiled his best lines.

Here's a sampling: On Health Care:  "In the wild, there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me and I'm dead.' Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead."

On Decision Making: Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing."

On Technology: "It appears that the website has become alive. This happens to computers and robots sometimes. Am I scared of a stupid computer? Please. The computer should be scared of me. I have been salesman of the month for 13 out of the last 12 months. You heard me right. I did so well last February that corporate gave me 2 plaques in lieu of a pay raise."

On Weapons in the Workplace:"I keep various weaponries strategically placed around the office. I saved Jim's life with a can of pepper spray I had velcroed under my desk. People say, 'Oh, it's dangerous to keep weapons in the home or the work place.' Well I say, 'It's better to be hurt by someone you know accidentally, than by a stranger on purpose.'"

Do you  have an words of wisdom to share?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.