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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 11, 2012
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )  
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a book review  
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)  
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