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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 29, 2025
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993  
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Remarkable Rocket"  
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