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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 22, 2026
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)  
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895  
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
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Willie Tyler  
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"  
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