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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 2, 2023
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Bella Abzug (1920 - )  
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - )  
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)  
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
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Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)  
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