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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 04, 2017
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946  
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)  
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)  
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)  
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