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Our awareness is all that is ...

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

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What a bummer it is to be a h...

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

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A sum of money is a leading c...

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

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This is what i find most enco...

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

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We're doomed to repeat the pa...

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

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Just because something feels ...

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

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I have no culture, no humane ...

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

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I was once asked if I had any...

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

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I think you guys are going to...

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

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On Tralfamadore, says Billy P...

On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.

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The paintings by dead men who...

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

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People who are wary of what t...

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

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I am of course a skeptic abou...

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

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...when a person dies he only...

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

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I think William Shakespeare w...

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

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And what is literature, Rabo,...

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

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I consider anybody a twerp wh...

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

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The name of the new religion,...

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

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profanity and obscenity entit...

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

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Traveling is like dancing les...

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....