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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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