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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 14, 2026
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"  
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910  
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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Rita Rudner  
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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Russel Lynes  
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