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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” —JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807–1892)
“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”
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“Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Fascists are inferior people who believe it when somebody tells them they’re superior,”
― Slapstick
― Slapstick
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