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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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
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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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
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
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
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
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
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Forever Gratitude Moments Myself Nice
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself

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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