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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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'I liked him very much,' said Constant.'The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,' said Beatrice.
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'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
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How embarrassing to be human.
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
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I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. … Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual … but everything is sexual … but alcohol.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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Busy, busy, busy.
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
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You know, in a way I wish I hadn’t met you two. It’s much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.
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Science is magic that works.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
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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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What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that flickered out.
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As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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