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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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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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
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.: Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny

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