New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
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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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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
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It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
