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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 06, 2008
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
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Harper's Index, October 1989
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
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Tom Robbins (1936 - )
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
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Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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