Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 28, 2012
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
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Robert Orben  
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )  
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)  
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
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