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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.


Kurt Vonnegut

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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT If you are not able to express your own original energy and ideas, if you do not listen to your own ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have...
ROLLO MAY What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without...
VISSARION BELINSKY If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will...
ROLLO MAY How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate fre...
MARINE LE PEN When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely i...
PHILIPP MEYER Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what...
LIONEL SUGGS Never allow others to make you feel inferior. If you continue to let you down and belittle yourself,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colo...
RASHEED OGUNLARU If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
BRYANT MCGILL If you want to experience joy and happiness in life, you must free your mind. Don't become a prisone...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your j...
SIENNA MILLER When you sing in worship and you are in praise, you must immediately begin to convert your experienc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do ...
PAUL PALNIK Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not...
WAYNE DYER Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not...
WAYNE DYER Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not...
BEVERLY SILLS You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.
STEVEN CUOCO For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entir...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'm not saying anything against the Modern side.
Modern and Classical, they are equal...
MURIEL SPARK If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive...
ZIG ZIGLAR If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own
RASHEED OGUNLARU If your desire is for people to be comfortable with your ideas,then you are a person without ideas.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don’t feel a part of your neighborh...
LAURIE A. HELGOE If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own w...
LORRIN L. LEE When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with ...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE I have always believed in the power of collaboration. Early on in my professional career, I realized...
VISHWAS CHAVAN If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your wa...
LINDA ELLERBEE you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner m...
BILL WATTERSON You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All thin...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA You can never control your own thoughts. You may think you can, but everyone around you has influenc...
MELISSA MITCHELL There are no jobs in Hollywood, you must make your own.
ELIZABETH MCDONALD For me the most important thing in my life is love. I think you have to be in love with your family,...
JOSE MOURINHO What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwh...
BRIAN TRACY Peace is what you create within your own mind, disturbance is what you allow to enter keep strong in...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. If you allow your mind to wonder towards poverty,poverty then becomes your lot,but if you allow your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actuall...
ZIG ZIGLAR It’s your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own stan...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have Dallas who's an All-American, you have an All-American closer in Gunderson, and you have Ni...
DAN SPENCER If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to...
SANDRA HERSEY If you live in America and you do not own your own business, you have given up your right to be free...
DR. TERRY LYLES To become the king of your territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much m...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You are all right in your own way but you are also all wrong in your own way, we all view things at ...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Find people that are great and learn from them, be selfless with all of the great knowledge that you...
JOE LARKIN Message from Archangel Metatron: "You have not been forgotten. Trust your own inner processes. You a...
KIMBERLY DAWN Other Christians may try to tell you what your values should be, but they are not perfect. You must ...
HENRY CLOUD You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply becaus...
FELIX ADLER Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the c...
ERIN HANSON You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, ...
KOUSHUN TAKAMI Given the plurality of the times we live in, we must allow for intolerance. Live your own life, prac...
PATRICK MCGUIRE Be yourself & respect your own self being.Let not influence of others undermine your own self entity...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your ...
NAGARJUNA Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your ...
SIDDHA NAGARJUNA Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
PETER DIAMANDIS A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you t...
A. R. RAHMAN Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
KURT VONNEGUT As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c...
JILL ANZINGER If the right doors are not opening for you, create your own opportunities because YOU possess the ke...
ATTICA LUNDY Take off all your makeup, clothes, and weave..if you still look good..then you are a natural beauty....
NERISSA IRVING Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how ev...
DANIEL RAEBURN Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to ...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true wor...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail b...
MICHAEL GERBER You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to sho...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Don't allow yourself to get into a condition where you are not able to defend yourself. This is not ...
BETH TWITTY If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do wi...
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story mus...
IRENE C. KASSORLA You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN To become a king of that territory, you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it i...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You must come to grips with yourself and settle in your spirit that not all open doors are meant for...
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being somethi...
JOEL OSTEEN Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear i...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
TORI AMOS The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you mu...
PAWAN MISHRA Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true wor...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you are able to show goodness to yourself, your family, friends, and maybe to some in your commun...
GUDJON BERGMANN It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com...
WANDA SYKES You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constr...
EMMET FOX To succeed in life you must remain humble for your own agenda, accept opinions and change if necessa...
GURPREET SINGH To truly own your life you must take ownership of your time.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN You must make your own opportunities.
JOHN B. GOUGH If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's noth...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind...
THURGOOD MARSHALL Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chan...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON

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KURT VONNEGUT There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained ci...
KURT VONNEGUT The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis...
KURT VONNEGUT There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth...
KURT VONNEGUT All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUT Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall...
KURT VONNEGUT Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
KURT VONNEGUT The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
KURT VONNEGUT Life is no way to treat an animal.
KURT VONNEGUT A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
KURT VONNEGUT To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUT In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
KURT VONNEGUT I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
KURT VONNEGUT Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
KURT VONNEGUT Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
KURT VONNEGUT Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths
KURT VONNEGUT profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
KURT VONNEGUT Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
KURT VONNEGUT One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
KURT VONNEGUT The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
KURT VONNEGUT This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
KURT VONNEGUT My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
KURT VONNEGUT People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
KURT VONNEGUT Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT This is a beguiling book,
KURT VONNEGUT and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
KURT VONNEGUT Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
KURT VONNEGUT The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
KURT VONNEGUT The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
KURT VONNEGUT What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
KURT VONNEGUT Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
KURT VONNEGUT I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
KURT VONNEGUT The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
KURT VONNEGUT Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
KURT VONNEGUT It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
KURT VONNEGUT I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
KURT VONNEGUT Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
KURT VONNEGUT The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
KURT VONNEGUT Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
KURT VONNEGUT How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
KURT VONNEGUT There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
KURT VONNEGUT Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
KURT VONNEGUT You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.
KURT VONNEGUT