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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 14, 2026
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)  
Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)  
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952  
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)  
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