Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 29, 2025
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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Norman Douglas  
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)  
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)  
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