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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 16, 2026
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)  
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)  
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)  
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