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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), 1983
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
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Zach Braff
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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Terry Pratchett
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
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