American - Author | November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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Science is magic that works.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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