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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.: Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.: Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.: Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful: Frederick Locker-Lampson
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