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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 29, 2024
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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Norm Crosby  
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction  
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
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Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill  
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
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Shirley Temple (1928 - )  
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