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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 1, 2025
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11  
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)  
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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Pierre Gallois  
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Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1  
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