Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 30, 2018
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)  
I felt like poisoning a monk.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."  
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
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Ron Nesen  
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
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