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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 5, 2026
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )  
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)  
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.
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Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)  
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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Bernard Bailey  
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