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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

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