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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 12, 2017
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)  
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio  
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)  
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)  
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