The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
("Breakfast of Champions")
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He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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