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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 26, 2026
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night  
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)  
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III  
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Alan Corenk  
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