Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 08, 2016
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)  
Life is just a bowl of pits.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)  
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - )  
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)  
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