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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.

Joseph Heller

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Drive Live Packet
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
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
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
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

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