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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

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