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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark

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