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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Herself Home Human People Wife
I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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