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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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