Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.

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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

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I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.

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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

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My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

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The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night.

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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

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