Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
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My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
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What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
