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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 11, 2019
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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New York City detective  
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944  
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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Pierre Gallois  
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951  
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