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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 28, 2026
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953  
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel  
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
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Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11  
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
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Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill  
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