Book: Cats in the cradle

"Likes and dislikes there is no significance," says Bokonon, but this warning is forgotten too easily.

More protected from human beings I ever met. People could not to hurt him because the people he was interested.

It broke my heart. It's not very nice. But I paid for this happiness. And in this world, you get what you pay for.

The island was anarchy, save in those rare cases, when the sugar company "castle and Son" decided to assign something or to do something. In such cases, was feudalism.

And he gallantly proposed a toast:
Our wives and mistresses! he exclaimed. - May they never meet.

Crosby was drunk and like every drunk, imagining that I can speak frankly, just to talk with feeling.

- <...> Music, - he said.
- Excuse me?
That's why she married him. He says the soul tuned to the biggest music there was, the music of the stars.

You see, when people say they know someone well, or know little, they usually mean all sorts of secrets that they either checked or not. They imply all sorts of details of family life, intimate Affairs, love stories.

Pure research men work on what fascinates them, not on what fascinates other people.

He always approached old puzzles as though they were brand new.

New knowledge is the most valuable in the world. The more truth we have, the richer we become.

- You have to understand, said Dr. breed. - That all people have the thinking process is the same. Only scientists think about all one by one, and other people differently.

Miss Pefko, apparently not used simply to chat with such important people as Dr. breed and she was embarrassed. Gait she became ill-tempered and tense, like a chicken. The face was glazed into a smile, and obviously she was stirring their brains, searching for something to say, but there is nothing except the paper napkins and fake trinkets, was not.

And before this bar was called "Pompey", everywhere is full of wreckage, marble of all sorts. Yes, just as it nor call, electrical wiring, cholera, has not changed. And the people, cholera, stayed the same, and the city, cholera, still the same.