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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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
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
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
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
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
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Kind Myself Place See
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk 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
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
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
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself

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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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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