Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

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Thomas Hardy

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

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Dag Hammarskjld

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

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William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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Richard Milhous Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

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Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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Richard Lamm

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.

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Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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