Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 22, 2025
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)  
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)  
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)  
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)  
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