Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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