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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 18, 2008
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)  
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Dorothy Nevill  
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
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Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002  
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