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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 10, 2026
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)  
With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)  
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)  
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)  
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