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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.: Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.: John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)

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