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.
KURT VONNEGUTSo the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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