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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 13, 2025
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)  
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)  
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14  
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