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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 5, 2026
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )  
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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)  
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)  
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The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876  
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