Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. (ang.)
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Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty o ludziach
Kurt Vonnegut był amerykański pisarz i publicysta. Odkryj ciekawe cytaty na temat ludzie.Matka noc
Well, I’ve worried some about, you know, why write books… why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it’s been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with… humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it’s presumably to encourage them to make a better world. (ang.)
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o Ukrzyżowaniu w Rzymie.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. (ang.)
He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. (ang.)
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You want to know why I don’t have AIDS, why I’m not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don’t fuck around. It’s as simple as that. (ang.)
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Źródło: Niedziela Palmowa – list Kurta Vonneguta do przewodniczącego rady szkoły w Drake w Dakocie Północnej, gdzie spalono powieść Rzeźnia numer pięć uznając ją za szkodliwą dla uczniów.
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