Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.
("Breakfast of Champions")
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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