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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 04, 2023
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)  
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)  
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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Marvin Minsky  
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