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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 23, 2009
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
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Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
This is like deja vu all over again.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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