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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 27, 2026
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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Dana Carvey (1955 - )  
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism  
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary  
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )  
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