"I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable."
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"See the cat? See the cradle?"
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"There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed."
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"The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears."
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"It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say."
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"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."
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"Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible."
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"The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there."
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"They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons."
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"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on."
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"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
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"Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place."
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"If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one."
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"There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia."
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"Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable."
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"The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck."
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"The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War."
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"If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."
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"Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."
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"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
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