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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 19, 2008
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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