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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
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
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUT

Learning Man Wisdom
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
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Death Goodness Time
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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

Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Kind Myself Place See
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
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
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
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

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