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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." -
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Top 5 quotes from Kurt Vonnegut
"The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody."
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Top 5 quotes from Education
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
"Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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