Rise above principal and do what’s right.

Joseph Heller

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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust
I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Ideas Life Novel Writing
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Dead Difference War Win

Rise above principal and do what’s right.

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