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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.: James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968

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