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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.

~Kurt Vonnegut

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What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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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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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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Science is magic that works.

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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 11th, 1922

Died: April 11th, 2007

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