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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.: Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
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