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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 2, 2026
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)  
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)  
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915  
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