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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 05, 2017
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)  
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)  
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)  
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence  
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