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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 05, 2012
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"  
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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Charles Peters  
I have seen the future and it doesn't work.
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Robert Fulford  
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  
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