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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."
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Explore more quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
Growth
"Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run."
Power
"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
Faith
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it."
Gratitude
"The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you."
Reality
"Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical."
Change
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
Freedom
"... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the newgovernment owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, evenafter slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and theirdescendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
History
"How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
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