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“To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

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Book:The third man: a film

Source: The third man: a film

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

Country Style Built Architecture Stuck Clock Brown Hotel Architect Up And Down Steep Switzerland Sideways Cuckoos Modern Architecture Alps Architecture And Art Cuckoo Clocks

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.”

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Author:Wilson Mizner

“n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.”

Thinking Firsts Eye Laughing Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Math Clock Fancy His Eyes Chocolate Korean Skiing Swiss Swedish Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Book:The Summoning: Number 1 in series

Source: The Summoning: Number 1 in series

“Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.”

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Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren