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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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Robertson Davies
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Robertson Davies
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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Bill Cosby (1937 - )
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
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Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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