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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 26, 2025
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)  
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)  
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)  
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
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