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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 19, 2026
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)  
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary  
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)  
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