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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 17, 2012
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)  
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)  
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )  
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