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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.: George Aiken
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.: Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.: Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946), Penrod (1914)

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