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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 19, 2026
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)  
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)  
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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Edward P. Tryon  
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction  
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