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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  3. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
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  5. Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  6. A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear! – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  7. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. – BF Skinner
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  12. We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. – Shelley Hendrix
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  21. I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist. – Pierre Berton
  22. I am an existential libertarian humanist ????sucker. Now, what else do you want to know? – Remesh R
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  24. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  26. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  33. It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  35. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  37. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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