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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 19, 2009
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
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