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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
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Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
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David Richerby
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
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Scott Adams (1957 - )
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