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Particular Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
- Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce…
- When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.… — Neil Armstrong
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams