Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 15, 2018
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)  
Every crowd has a silver lining.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)  
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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Doug Larson  
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)  
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