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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 8, 2025
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)  
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)  
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)  
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
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Kelvin Throop III  
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