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" Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. "

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" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "

" I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it. "

" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "

" I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people. "

" A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. "

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. "

" Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "

" What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. "

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

" I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. "

" I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. "

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. "

" People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. "

" I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

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" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "

" It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. "

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" We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. "

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