Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
("Cat's Cradle")
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not to believe my government.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world - in the form of bad ideas.
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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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