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Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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