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“There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.”

Quote by Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey was an influential American author best known for his anti-establishment novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. His works often delve into social and political issues, and are celebrated for their unique narrative style and profound insights. more

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“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”

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“There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.”

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“Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.”

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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

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“Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.”

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Author:Ken Kesey

“Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .”

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“The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.”

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Author:Ken Kesey

“One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.”

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“Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one.”