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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 21, 2024
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)  
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )  
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)  
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
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