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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 11, 2026
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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David Friedman  
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
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Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)  
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
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