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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), 1983
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.: John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus

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