Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 17, 2012
Is there life before death?
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Graffito, in Belfast  
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
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George Iles  
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)  
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Sidney J. Harris  
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