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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken

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