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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

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