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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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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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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I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.
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It's not business to consumer, it's not business to business, it's people to people...
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.
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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.
