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“Da gibt es mal wieder eine große internationale Systemkrise', sagt das Känguru kopfschüttelnd, 'und dann kommt einer an - noch dazu ein Banker - und sagt: >Schuld haben nicht etwa die Politiker, die Banker, die Lobbyisten oder der Kapitalismus... Nein! Schuld haben< - Achtung! - >DIE AUSLÄNDER!< Na klar. Juchhe! Voll die neue Idee! Und der ganze Pöbel ruft: >Ja, das habe ich mir schon immer gedacht. Die sehen ja schon so komisch aus, und die reden so seltsam, und die mögen keine Leberwurscht!”
― Das Känguru-Manifest
― Das Känguru-Manifest
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...”
― Island
― Island
“You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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