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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
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
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself Yourself
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
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
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful

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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