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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.: Marilyn Ferguson
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.: Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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