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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
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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.
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John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
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William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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Tom Hanks (1956 - )
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
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Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
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