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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 16, 2024
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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Joan Baez (1941 - )  
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)  
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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis  
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