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Who is more to be pitied, a w...

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

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I am honorary President of th...

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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Oh, sure, we have another wor...

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

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When a man becomes a writer, ...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

If people think nature is the...

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

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It may be that the most strik...

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

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All time is all time. It does...

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

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People have to talk about som...

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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I let the dog out, or I let h...

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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Beware of the man who works h...

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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I want to stand as close to t...

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

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I tell you, we are here on Ea...

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

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Science sent the Hubble teles...

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

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What should young people do w...

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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I was taught that the human b...

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

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I'm screamingly funny, you kn...

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

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Everyone now knows how to fin...

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

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New knowledge is the most val...

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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I had no talent for science. ...

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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I consider anybody a twerp wh...

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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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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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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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....