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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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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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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.: J. Bartlett Brebner
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Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.: Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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