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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 19, 2013
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)  
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930  
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Facts are stupid things.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)  
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