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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Only the shallow know themselves.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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