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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 26, 2012
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave  
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money  
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )  
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959  
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