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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward

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