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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 6, 2026
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)  
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791  
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Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )  
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
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Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)  
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