Kurt Vonnegut

“The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that nevercrossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at4 pm on some idle Tuesday.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

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Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. – Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

“Faith” is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. – Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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T. H. White (1906-1964) English novelist, in “The Once and Future King” 1958

“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never
fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night
listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the
world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know [...]

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William H. Sheldon

“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” – William H. Sheldon

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Lawrence Summers, an economic adviser to President Obama

“There are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last 18 months, but what’s happened at A.I.G. is the most outrageous.” – Lawrence Summers, an economic adviser to President Obama, on bonuses paid to A.I.G. executives after the government bailout.

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William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. – William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

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David Finckel, a cellist and co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

“I’m already so jazzed. It’s the greatest new toy I’ve ever had.” – David Finckel, a cellist and co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, on the $159 million renovation of Alice Tully Hall.

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Minna Thomas Antrim

“Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.” – Minna Thomas Antrim

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Christopher Hampton

“No human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.” – Christopher Hampton

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