Lucy: You can’t drift along forever. You have to direct your thinking. For instance, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a liberal or a conservative. You have to take some sort of stand. You have to associate yourself with some sort of cause.
Linus: How can a person just decide what he’s going to think? Doesn’t he have to think first, and then try to discover what it is that he’s thought?
Peanuts, 1961 April 26&27:
I just looked this up. It seems the text has been altered, and in the original, Linus said “Are there any openings in the Lunatic Fringe?” http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1961/04/26
Read the next one: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1961/04/27
I skipped the punchlines.
I see, thanks.