I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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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.Kurt Vonnegut
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
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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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Well, to admire the hell out of Jesus Christ or of everyone who speaks well. And, well my grandfather said is-- if-- what Jesus said was marvelous. What does it matter whether he was God or not And it doesn't matter. So this is a human being who spoke extremely well, and we humanists listened.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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