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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 20, 2010
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)  
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
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Frederick Locker-Lampson  
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
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unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949  
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)  
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