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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throug

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like Im in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. – George Saunders

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The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders

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If death is in the room, its pretty interesting. But I would also say that Im interested in getting myself to believe that its going to happen to me. Im interested in it, because if youre not, youre nuts. Its really de facto what were here to find out about. – George Saunders

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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. – Marian Wright Edelman

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He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I dont think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. – Shel Silverstein

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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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Its cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre. – Josh Hutcherson

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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher. – Socrates

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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. – Charles V

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