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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 20, 2025
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
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Eric Sevareid  
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless  
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
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