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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.

Joseph Heller

I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
JOSEPH HELLER

Freedom Live Strong
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
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
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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Government Industry Private Togetherness
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Enemy Kill War
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
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
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid

There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.

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