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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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J. Bartlett Brebner
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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