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

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

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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