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You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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