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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.

Joseph Heller

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
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
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
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
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

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