"History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between."

-- Sarah Vowell

#War Quotes #Murder Quotes #Natural Quotes

“When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.”
“"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.”
“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.”
“A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.”
“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”
“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”
“I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.”
“People say that what weâ€™re all seeking is a meaning for life. I donâ€™t think thatâ€™s what weâ€™re really seeking. I think that what weâ€™re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

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