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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.

Joseph Heller

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
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
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
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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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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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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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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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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