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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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