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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
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.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: 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.: John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus

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