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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 15, 2025
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"  
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)  
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
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Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924  
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  
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