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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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