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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 26, 2025
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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Farmers' Almanac, 1978  
Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)  
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )  
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  
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