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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

Joseph Heller

For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enough Expensive Peace War
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
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
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
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
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
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Ashame Failure Trick
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

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