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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 22, 2023
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968  
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)  
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4  
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978  
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