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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 23, 2026
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Annajanska (1919)  
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1  
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview  
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
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