Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 14, 2020
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)  
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)  
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006  
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