Kurt Vonnegut
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American novelist (1922 to 2007), author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions; a senior editor of In These Times until his death,…
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Leaders in Washington are proudly ignorant guessers, sick of the solid information research and reporting provide (opens korrents.com)
“Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and…”
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Using the vast knowledge now available to educated people will leave you lonesome (opens korrents.com)
“But let me warn you, if you make use of the vast fund of knowledge now available to educated persons, you are going to be lonesome as hell.”
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America has no chance of becoming humane and reasonable, because power corrupts and human beings get drunk on it (opens korrents.com)
“But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America’s becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.”
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Leaders in Washington are proudly ignorant guessers, sick of the solid information research and reporting provide (opens korrents.com)