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- 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.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), "A Room with a View"
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
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