Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 15, 2017
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)  
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)  
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)  
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191  
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