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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.
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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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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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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
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