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If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings, said the Tralfamadorian, I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Kurt Vonnegut
Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth
KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut
New Beginnings, Earth, Breakfast Of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.41, Dial Press

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut
Iron Will, Trout, Earth
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Kurt Vonnegut
Earth, Breakfast Of Champions, Process
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut
Ideas, Cuckoos, Earth
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut
Nature, Earth, Environment
"If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.

We're here on Earth to fart around

Kurt Vonnegut
Earth, Fart
Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer (2011). “Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Kurt Vonnegut
Earth, Surface, Fertile
Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Kurt Vonnegut
Land, Earth, Planets
Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Kurt Vonnegut
Men, Earth, Helping
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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