Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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