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.

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Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

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

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut

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I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

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It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

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