Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.Kurt Vonnegut
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
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Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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