Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 29, 2014
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1  
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
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Willie Tyler  
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"  
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)  
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