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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.: Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
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A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.: Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

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