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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Kurt Vonnegut

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

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