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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 23, 2026
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
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Scott Adams (1957 - )  
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Observer, April 13, 1958  
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
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Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991  
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)  
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