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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), "Heretics", 1905

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