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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?: Dick Clark
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.: Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II

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