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" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "

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" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "

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" 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. "

" I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. "

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" 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. "

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" All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. "

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

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" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. "

" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "

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