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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 13, 2008
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)  
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"  
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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George Best  
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