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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

Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
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
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
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
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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 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
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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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
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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Broken Heart Miracle Time
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
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
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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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
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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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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