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We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
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You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
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