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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.: Floyd Dell
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.: Jimmy Demaret
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.: Willem de Kooning (1904 - )
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

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