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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.: Solomon Short
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.: Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.: Ellen DeGeneres
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)

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