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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 18, 2017
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)  
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"  
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia  
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