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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 12, 2026
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)  
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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
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Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)  
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)  
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