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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

— Bokonon, quoted by the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 4

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

— Bokonon, quoted by the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 2

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