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12 December 2005

Kurt VonnegutKorrents 12 Dec 2005

From one piece Your Guess Is as Good as Mine (In These Times, 2005) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Using the vast knowledge now available to educated people will leave you lonesome

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But let me warn you, if you make use of the vast fund of knowledge now available to educated persons, you are going to be lonesome as hell.

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Leaders in Washington are proudly ignorant guessers, sick of the solid information research and reporting provide

America

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Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting.

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10 May 2004

Kurt VonnegutKorrents 10 May 2004

From one piece Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004) 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The industrialized world is hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and they will soon run out

energy

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When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there won’t be any more of those.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com
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The two most abused, addictive and destructive substances are legal, despite the government's war on drugs

governmentAddiction

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My government’s got a war on drugs. But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com
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All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being

courage

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All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com

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The Constitution's tragic flaw is that only nut cases want to be president

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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com
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The most vocal Christians demand the Ten Commandments in public buildings but never mention the Beatitudes

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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com
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America has no chance of becoming humane and reasonable, because power corrupts and human beings get drunk on it

America

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But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America’s becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.

Cold Turkey (In These Times, 2004)inthesetimes.com

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