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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 27, 2026
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)  
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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
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Tom Masson  
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)  
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