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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 17, 2008
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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Bob Edwards
A cult is a religion with no political power.
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Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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