Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUT
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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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