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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 02, 2009
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
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Robert Byrne
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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