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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

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
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Existence God Himself Music Need
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
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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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

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