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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), "Heretics", 1905
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.: Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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