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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 27, 2026
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)  
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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Lech Walesa (1943 - )  
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891  
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)  
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