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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 25, 2009
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
S p o n s o r e d   L i n k [Buy a text ad here]
What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
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