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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 03, 2017
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"  
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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Jean Kerr  
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
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Frederick L Collins  
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)  
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