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 | "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high
school class is running the country." | |
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Found in the topic School.
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| "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and
finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by
their ignorance the hard way." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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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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Found in the topic Talk.
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| "We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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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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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could
just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing
information." | |
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Found in the topic Amass.
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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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Found in the topic Eyes.
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| "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I
consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." | |
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Found in the topic Health.
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| "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than
anything else I can think of." | |
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Found in the topic School.
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| "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists,
unless laughter can be said to remedy anything." | |
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Found in the topic Disappointment.
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| "We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we
pretend." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "You know ? we"ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined
that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten
that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved
faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God ?" I said to myself, "it"s the
Children"s Crusade."" | |
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Found in the topic Soldier.
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