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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.: Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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