406 Quotes About Memorable

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

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  • Author Gough Whitlam
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    My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

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  • Author Gough Whitlam
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    Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

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  • Author Gough Whitlam
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    Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

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