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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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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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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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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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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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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
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Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.
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She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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