Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.Kurt Vonnegut
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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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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the ideas in the piece seemed to make such great sense.
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We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently...in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time...We had fought something which was totally obscene.This was very bad for us... One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity...has become our curse today.
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If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires ''I love you, too. ''
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