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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 4, 2024
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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William James (1842 - 1910)  
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )  
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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John Erskine (1879 - 1951)  
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"  
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